netdev - Re: Stable inclusion request: recvmsg/sendmsg userspace regression fix

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Date:	Sun, 03 May 2015 22:21:17 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stable Tree <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Stable inclusion request: recvmsg/sendmsg userspace regression
 fix

On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 09:24 +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> Cc: Ben
> 
> On 2015/1/30 23:28, Michal Marek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > please include
> > 
> > commit 6a2a2b3ae0759843b22c929881cc184b00cc63ff
> > Author: Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>
> > Date:   Mon Sep 8 14:49:59 2014 -0700
> > 
> >     net:socket: set msg_namelen to 0 if msg_name is passed as NULL in
> > msghdr struct from userland.
> > 
> > to 3.14.y and older trees, since it fixes a userspace regression caused
> > by commit dbb490b9 ("net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen"). The
> > patch applies cleanly to all trees down to 2.6.32.y.
> > 
> 
> Queued up for 3.4. Thansks!
> 
> It's still missing from 3.2.y, so cc Ben.

Queued up for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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