netdev - Re: bug in passing file descriptors

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Date:	Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:32:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sar@...-labs.com
Cc:	luto@...capital.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mtk.manpages@...il.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: bug in passing file descriptors

From: Steve Rago <sar@...-labs.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:29:15 -0400

> On 10/07/2013 03:42 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> There is no compatability issue.
>>
>> 32-bit tasks will always see the 4-byte align/length.
>> 64-bit tasks will always see the 8-byte align/length.
>>
> 
> Really?  So when I compile my application on a 32-bit Linux box and
> then try to run it on a 64-bit Linux box, you're not going to overrun
> my buffer when CMSG_SPACE led me to allocate an insufficient amount of
> memory needed to account for padding on the 64-bit platform?

We have a compatability layer that gives 32-bit applications the
same behavior as if they had run on a 32-bit machine.

Search around for the MSG_MSG_COMPAT flag and how that is used in
net/socket.c
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