Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:47:31 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIAL when dest socket is NULL" | From | David Miller <> |
| |
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:13:35 -0700
> > This reverts commit 14134f6584212d585b310ce95428014b653dfaf6. > > The problem that the above patch was meant to address is that af_unix > messages are not being coallesced because we are sending unnecesarry > credentials. Not sending credentials in maybe_add_creds totally > breaks unconnected unix domain sockets that wish to send credentails > to other sockets. > > In practice this break some versions of udev because they receive a > message and the sending uid is bogus so they drop the message. > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Reported-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Applied.
| |