netdev - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] net: socket: Fix the wrong returns for recvmsg and sendmsg

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Date:	Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:54:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	zhengjunling@...wei.com
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, lizefan@...wei.com,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, xuhanbing@...wei.com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] net: socket: Fix the wrong returns for recvmsg
 and sendmsg

From: Junling Zheng <zhengjunling@...wei.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:28:00 +0000

> We found that after v3.10.73, recvmsg might return -EFAULT while -EINVAL
> was expected.
> 
> We tested it through the recvmsg01 testcase come from LTP testsuit. It set
> msg->msg_namelen to -1 and the recvmsg syscall returned errno 14, which is
> unexpected (errno 22 is expected):
> 
> recvmsg01    4  TFAIL  :  invalid socket length ; returned -1 (expected -1),
> errno 14 (expected 22)
> 
> Linux mainline has no this bug for commit 08adb7dab fixes it accidentally.
> However, it is too large and complex to be backported to LTS 3.10.
> 
> So, I made the following patch to fix the above problem for LTS 3.10.

Upstream the code doesn't look anything like this, so it's probably
just a missing bug fix for -stable.
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