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

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Date:	Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:17:04 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	svenjoac@....de, 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

On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 00:47 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 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!

OK, dropped it.

Ben.

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