netdev - [COMPAT]: non-cmsg data gets interpreted as cmsg data (sparc64)

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Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:08:37 +0100
From:	Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [COMPAT]: non-cmsg data gets interpreted as cmsg data (sparc64)

I am having troubles with 

 * using sendmsg() with non-zero msg_controllen 
 * on the compat layer on sparc64
 * running an updated Debian lenny distribution.

The problem involves passing a "struct msghdr" containing priority
information for the packet which is to be used by DCCP.

The following code segment works without problems on IA-32:

	uint32_t prio = 10;
	struct msghdr msg;

	// fill in iov bits of msg
	// ...
	msg.msg_control	   = &prio;
	msg.msg_controllen = sizeof prio;

	if (sendmsg(sockfd, &msg, 0))
		err(1, "sendmsg failed");

On sparc64, the above attempt fails with EINVAL in line 165 of net/compat.c,
in the function cmsghdr_from_user_compat_to_kern() ("if (kcmlen == 0) ...").

>From what the code looks like, this however seems to be the area where CMSG
data is interpreted - seemingly the control flow got into the wrong department.

In net/socket.c, there seems to be no other choice for this control flow,
due to "if ((MSG_CMSG_COMPAT & flags) && ctl_len) {".

How can I stop the kernel from thinking that the uint32_t is a cmsg header -
the most recent postings I could google for this were from 2005.

It may be that I am missing something here, but after already some testing
I have run out of ideas / time. Hints for looking further or pointers to
known fixes would be appreciated.

Gerrit

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