linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] decnet: fix shutdown parameter checking

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Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:16:41 +0100
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] decnet: fix shutdown parameter checking


On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 22:37 -0400, Xi Wang wrote:
> The allowed value of "how" is SHUT_RD/SHUT_WR/SHUT_RDWR (0/1/2),
> rather than SHUTDOWN_MASK (3).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>

Although it could be argued that we should also continue to accept the
value 3 just in case there is any userland software out there which
sends that value,

Steve.

> ---
>  net/decnet/af_decnet.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/decnet/af_decnet.c b/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
> index 2ba1a28..307c322 100644
> --- a/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
> +++ b/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
> @@ -1313,10 +1313,10 @@ static int dn_shutdown(struct socket *sock, int how)
>  	if (scp->state == DN_O)
>  		goto out;
>  
> -	if (how != SHUTDOWN_MASK)
> +	if (how != SHUT_RDWR)
>  		goto out;
>  
> -	sk->sk_shutdown = how;
> +	sk->sk_shutdown = SHUTDOWN_MASK;
>  	dn_destroy_sock(sk);
>  	err = 0;
>  


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