linux-kernel - Re: [ 105/124] af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIAL when dest socket is NULL

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Date:	Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:47:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	svenjoac@....de
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, dingtianhong@...wei.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [ 105/124] af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIAL when dest socket
 is NULL

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:41:32 +0200

> On 2013-04-03 00:11 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
>> 3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> I'm seeing several complaints from udevd at boot in both 3.8.6-rc1 and
> 3.9-rc5: "udevd[56]: sender uid=65534, message ignored".  Reverting the
> patch below on top of 3.8.6-rc1 fixes that.  I'm using udev version 175
> here, and 65534 is the uid of user "nobody".

Greg and Ben, please stop this patch from all of the -stable trees.

I'm going to revert it and use Eric Biederman's fix instead.

Thanks!
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