netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: diag: document swapped src/dst in udp_dump

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Date:   Sun, 28 Oct 2018 19:27:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lorenzo@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, zenczykowski@...il.com,
        xemul@...allels.com, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: diag: document swapped src/dst in
 udp_dump_one.

From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:15:22 +0900

> Since its inception, udp_dump_one has had a bug where userspace
> needs to swap src and dst addresses and ports in order to find
> the socket it wants. This is because it passes the socket source
> address to __udp[46]_lib_lookup's saddr argument, but those
> functions are intended to find local sockets matching received
> packets, so saddr is the remote address, not the local address.
> 
> This can no longer be fixed for backwards compatibility reasons,
> so add a brief comment explaining that this is the case. This
> will avoid confusion and help ensure SOCK_DIAG implementations
> of new protocols don't have the same problem.
> 
> Fixes: a925aa00a55 ("udp_diag: Implement the get_exact dumping functionality")
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.