Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] net: socket: Fix the wrong returns for recvmsg and sendmsg

From: Luis Henriques <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 11:15:22 +0100

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 03:05:57PM +0800, Junling Zheng wrote:
> On 2015/6/2 14:52, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 02:43:54PM +0800, Junling Zheng wrote:
> >> On 2015/6/2 14:27, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:23:57PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >>>> From: Junling Zheng <[email-masked]>
> >>>> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 12:05:32 +0800
> >>>>
> >>>>> So, the problem commit is 281c9c36 (net: compat: Update
> >>>>> get_compat_msghdr() to match copy_msghdr_from_user() behaviour),
> >>>>> which fixes db31c55a6fb2 and brings the get_compat_msghdr() in line
> >>>>> with copy_msghdr_from_user().
> >>>>
> >>>> Upstream this got fixed by:
> >>>>
> >>>> 08adb7dabd4874cc5666b4490653b26534702ce0
> >>>>
> >>>> So the part that makes us not unconditionally return -EFAULT needs
> >>>> to be backported, and that's probably equivalent to the patch
> >>>> your proposed which therefore should be applied.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, thanks, now applied.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Maybe other stable version also needs this fix:)
> > 
> > Yes, from what I'm seeing, at least 3.2 and 2.6.32 need it as well.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, all other stable versions *except 3.19 and 4.0* may need this fix:)

This seems to be correct.  I am queuing this fix for the 3.16 kernel
as well.  Thank you!

Cheers,
--
Luís