Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:09:05 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH - RFC] [1/2] 2.6 must-fix list - kernel error reporting |
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:37:44 +1000 (EST) James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jim Keniston wrote: > > > That begs the question: do we trust that nobody but the kernel will send > > packets to a NETLINK_KERROR socket? Ordinary users can't, but any root > > application can. Without kerror_netlink_rcv(), such packets don't get > > dequeued. > > Indeed, the kernel socket buffer fills up. > > I think this needs to be addressed in the netlink code, per the patch > below.
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