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SubjectRe: [PATCH] linux 2.9.10-rc1: Fix oops in unix_dgram_sendmsg when using SELinux and SOCK_SEQPACKET


Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>
>
> Chris Wright wrote:
>
>> * Ross Kendall Axe (ross.axe@blueyonder.co.uk) wrote:
>>
>>> Taking this idea further, couldn't we split unix_dgram_sendmsg into 2
>>> functions, do_unix_dgram_sendmsg and do_unix_connectionless_sendmsg
>>> (and similarly for unix_stream_sendmsg), then all we'd need is:
>>>
>>> <pseudocode>
>>> static int do_unix_dgram_sendmsg(...);
>>> static int do_unix_stream_sendmsg(...);
>>> static int do_unix_connectionless_sendmsg(...);
>>> static int do_unix_connectional_sendmsg(...);
>>
>>
>>
>> We could probably break it down to better functions and helpers, but I'm
>> not sure that's quite the breakdown. That looks to me like an indirect
>> way to pass a flag which is already encoded in the ops and sk_type.
>> At anyrate, for 2.6.10 the changes should be small and obvious.
>> Better refactoring should be left for 2.6.11.
>
>
> Hey, go ahead, do the split and please, please use sk->sk_prot, that is
> the way to do the proper split and will allow us to nuke several
> pointers in struct sock (sk_slab, sk_owner for now) :-)
>
> I have a friend doing this for X.25, will submit his patches as soon
> as we do some more testing and 2.6.10 is out.

Ah, this is the way the inet transport protos have been working for
years, and I've been factoring out the struct proto_ops methods from
TCP into the networking core, look at net/core/stream.c and the
sock_common_ prefixed functions in net/core/sock.c.

- Arnaldo
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