Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] man/send(2): document a long standing bug that can cause spurious EPERM errors

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo-Cap9r6Oaw4JrovVCs/[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:12:23 +0100

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 03:52:40PM +0900, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] man/send(2): document a long standing bug that can cause spurious EPERM errors
> 
> This bug has been known since early 2009 (the latest) and  discussed in
> netdev before:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&w=2&r=1&s=Possible+race+condition+in+conntracking+&q=b
> 
> It seems that a proper fix would be non trivial, so document the bug
> in the meantime.
>
> Reported-by: Hirotaka Sasaki <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <[email-masked]>
> ---
> 
> diff -urNp man-pages-3.50-orig/man2/send.2 man-pages-3.50/man2/send.2
> --- man-pages-3.50-orig/man2/send.2	2013-03-19 15:18:03.784306647 +0900
> +++ man-pages-3.50/man2/send.2	2013-03-19 15:30:40.788060426 +0900
> @@ -420,6 +420,11 @@ Linux may return
>  .B EPIPE
>  instead of
>  .BR ENOTCONN .
> +
> +Linux may return spurious
> +.B EPERM
> +errors when netfilter's conntrack module is loaded and two or more
> +UDP packets belonging to the same connection are processed in parallel.

The Connection tracking system may drop packets for different reasons
under rare circunstances, not only in this case.

I'd prefer if you only apply patch 1/2.
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