Subject: Re: Stable inclusion request: recvmsg/sendmsg userspace regression fix

From: Jiri Slaby <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:43:12 +0100

On 01/30/2015, 04:28 PM, Michal Marek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please include
> 
> commit 6a2a2b3ae0759843b22c929881cc184b00cc63ff
> Author: Ani Sinha <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Mon Sep 8 14:49:59 2014 -0700
> 
>     net:socket: set msg_namelen to 0 if msg_name is passed as NULL in
> msghdr struct from userland.
> 
> to 3.14.y and older trees, since it fixes a userspace regression caused
> by commit dbb490b9 ("net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen"). The
> patch applies cleanly to all trees down to 2.6.32.y.

Hi,

this was not in the last batch of fixes yet. David, do you have any
plans with this one?

thanks,
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js
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