netdev - Re: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/579654?

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Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:43:39 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@...ileactivedefense.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	edumazet@...gle.com, dhowells@...hat.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/579654?

On 16.02.2016 21:09, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/579654
>
> lists this as 'superseded', among with the older versions of the patch
> which changed the error handling. But at least, I couldn't find anything
> superseding it. This was supposed to address the different-but-related
> problem demonstrated by the following (slightly modified) test program:
>
> ---------
 > [...]
> --------
>
> Because the receiver has to wait for the message, it will hit the
> continue in unix_stream_read_generic. This causes the size-check of the
> do-while loop to be executed which terminates the loop as the size is
> zero without copying the credential information.
>
> Just wondering if this might have been lost in the noise ...

I think the patch got lost, probably just resending is the easiest 
solution. ;)

For the patch:
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Thanks,
Hannes