linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Return error instead of partial read for saved syn headers

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Message-Id: <20150519.163350.407818271127074601.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 16:33:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	emunson@...mai.com
Cc:	edumazet@...gle.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Return error instead of partial read for
 saved syn headers

From: Eric B Munson <emunson@...mai.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 14:35:58 -0400

> Currently the getsockopt() requesting the cached contents of the syn
> packet headers will fail silently if the caller uses a buffer that is
> too small to contain the requested data.  Rather than fail silently and
> discard the headers, getsockopt() should return an error and report the
> required size to hold the data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@...mai.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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