Re: [PATCH/FIX] net: Block MSG_CMSG_COMPAT in send(m)msg andrecv(m)msg

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 10:56:00 +0200
> 
> > MSG_CMSG_COMPAT is (AFAIK) not intended to be part of the API --
> > it's a hack that steals a bit to indicate to other networking code
> > that a compat entry was used.  So don't allow it from a non-compat
> > syscall.
> > 
> > This prevents an oops when running this code:
>  ...
> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Applied and queued up for -stable.

Thanks David!

	Ingo
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