Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:34:11 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] linux 2.9.10-rc1: Fix oops in unix_dgram_sendmsg when using SELinux and SOCK_SEQPACKET |
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* Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > On Iau, 2004-11-18 at 03:42, James Morris wrote: > > > Well, my reading of socket(2) suggests that it's _not_ supposed to work. > > > > sendto() on a non connected socket should fail with ENOTCONN. > > Not entirely true at all. A network protocol can implement lazy binding > and > do implicit binding on the sendto. Other protocols might not actually > have > a receiving component so have no bind() functionality at all.
Just to be clear, this fix is not at socket layer, but specific to UNIX domain socket protocol layer.
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