netdev - Re: Stable inclusion request: recvmsg/sendmsg userspace regression fix

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Date:	Thu, 9 Apr 2015 09:24:03 +0800
From:	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
CC:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stable Tree <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Stable inclusion request: recvmsg/sendmsg userspace regression
 fix

Cc: Ben

On 2015/1/30 23:28, Michal Marek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please include
> 
> commit 6a2a2b3ae0759843b22c929881cc184b00cc63ff
> Author: Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>
> Date:   Mon Sep 8 14:49:59 2014 -0700
> 
>     net:socket: set msg_namelen to 0 if msg_name is passed as NULL in
> msghdr struct from userland.
> 
> to 3.14.y and older trees, since it fixes a userspace regression caused
> by commit dbb490b9 ("net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen"). The
> patch applies cleanly to all trees down to 2.6.32.y.
> 

Queued up for 3.4. Thansks!

It's still missing from 3.2.y, so cc Ben.
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