netdev - Re: SCTP ABI breakage?

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Date:   Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:54:23 -0500
From:   Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        davem <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "linux-sctp @ vger . kernel . org" <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>,
        network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SCTP ABI breakage?

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 5:50 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
>
> Looks like changes to SCTP events create kernel ABI breakage in applications.
>
> If application is compiled with new header but attempts to run on older kernel, it doesn't work:
>
> Reported here: https://osmocom.org/issues/5366
>
> Looks like bad design assumptions about how setsockopt here:
> static int sctp_setsockopt_events(struct sock *sk, __u8 *sn_type,
>                                   unsigned int optlen)
> {
>         struct sctp_sock *sp = sctp_sk(sk);
>         struct sctp_association *asoc;
>         int i;
>
>         if (optlen > sizeof(struct sctp_event_subscribe))
>                 return -EINVAL;
>
> Because of that the commits that add new events cause code built with the new
> header to not run on older kernels.
Hi, Stephen,

This is a known issue, and we're sorry that this can not be fixed.
please see:

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200501131607.GU1294372@nataraja/

Thanks.