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

From: Zefan Li <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 09:24:03 +0800

Cc: Ben

On 2015/1/30 23:28, 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.
> 

Queued up for 3.4. Thansks!

It's still missing from 3.2.y, so cc Ben.