netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] tipc: set sk_err correctly when connection fails

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Date:	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:07:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	erik.hugne@...csson.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ying.xue@...driver.com, jon.maloy@...csson.com,
	tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, nhan.tt.vo@...tech.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tipc: set sk_err correctly when connection fails

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:03:10 -0400

> On 13-08-28 03:29 AM, erik.hugne@...csson.com wrote:
>> From: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
>> 
>> Should a connect fail, if the publication/server is unavailable or
>> due to some other error, a positive value will be returned and errno
>> is never set. If the application code checks for an explicit zero
>> return from connect (success) or a negative return (failure), it
>> will not catch the error and subsequent send() calls will fail as
>> shown from the strace snippet below.
>> 
>> socket(0x1e /* PF_??? */, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0) = 3
>> connect(3, {sa_family=0x1e /* AF_??? */, sa_data="\2\1\322\4\0\0\322\4\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, 16) = 111
>> sendto(3, "test", 4, 0, NULL, 0)        = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
>> 
>> The reason for this behaviour is that TIPC wrongly inverts error
>> codes set in sk_err.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
>> ---
>> 
>> [v2: add more details to commit message]
> 
> Thanks -- this now conveys the required triplet: 1) user visible symptom,
> 2) underlying technical cause, and 3) the why and how of the fix.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks everyone.
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