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

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Date:	Tue, 2 Jun 2015 14:33:51 +0800
From:	Junling Zheng <zhengjunling@...wei.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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

On 2015/6/2 13:23, David Miller wrote:
> From: Junling Zheng <zhengjunling@...wei.com>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 12:05:32 +0800
> 
>> So, the problem commit is 281c9c36 (net: compat: Update
>> get_compat_msghdr() to match copy_msghdr_from_user() behaviour),
>> which fixes db31c55a6fb2 and brings the get_compat_msghdr() in line
>> with copy_msghdr_from_user().
> 
> Upstream this got fixed by:
> 
> 08adb7dabd4874cc5666b4490653b26534702ce0
> 
> So the part that makes us not unconditionally return -EFAULT needs
> to be backported, and that's probably equivalent to the patch
> your proposed which therefore should be applied.
> 
> .
> 
Yes, we indeed missed some changes of 08adb7d, and these changes could
make commit 281c9c36 appropriate for stable version.
In addition, I think other stable version also needs this fix.

Cheers,

Junling

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