netdev - RE: [PATCH] sctp: Fix mangled IPv4 addresses on a IPv6 listening socket

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2015 08:58:35 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Jason Gunthorpe' <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
CC:	'Daniel Borkmann' <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	"linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org" <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] sctp: Fix mangled IPv4 addresses on a IPv6 listening
 socket

From: Jason Gunthorpe
> Sent: 27 May 2015 18:05
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 04:41:18PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> 
> > The code will be sleeping in kernel_accept() and later calls
> > kernel_getpeername().
> > The code is used for both TCP and SCTP and this part is common (using
> > the TCP semantics).
> 
> getpeername uses a different flow, it calls into inet6_getname which
> will always return the AF_INET6 version.

Ok, that explains why I hadn't seen the problem.
It also means I don't have to worry about it.

	David

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