netdev - Re: [PATCH] af_unix: Don't set err in unix_stream_read

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Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 2016 21:33:38 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@...ileactivedefense.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	dhowells@...hat.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_unix: Don't set err in unix_stream_read_generic unless
 there was an error

Hello.

On 02/08/2016 06:33 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:

> The present unix_stream_read_generic contains various code sequences of
> the form
>
> err = -EDISASTER;
> if (<test>)
> 	goto out;
>
> This has the unfortunate side effect of possibly causing the error code
> to bleed through to the final
>
> out:
> 	return copied ? : err;
>
> and then to be wrongly returned if no data was copied because the caller
> didn't supply a data buffer, as demonstrated by the program available at
>
> http://pad.lv/1540731
>
> Change it such that err is only set if an error condition was detected.
>
> Fixes: 3822b5c2fc62

    You also need to specify the patch summary like this: ("<summary").

> Signed-off-by: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@...ileactivedefense.com>
[...]

MBR, Sergei