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SubjectRe: [ 105/124] af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIAL when dest socket is NULL
On 04/03/2013 08:35 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 17:10 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2013-04-03 16:00 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>>
>>> It might be a wrong sender (application bug or bad identity), and udevd
>>> correctly discards the incoming message.
>>
>> How would I find out the culprit?
>
> Change udevd to display the pid as well, and hopefully track the sender.
>
> udevd receives uid and pid in the credentials.

This sounds suspiciously like an SCM_CREDENTIALS bug triggered by a
race. There's a fix (that needs both a new version from me and a review
by someone) here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg229948.html

--Andy


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