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Re: [PATCH 2.6] fix zombie netlink socket in user space

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] fix zombie netlink socket in user space
From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 19 Sep 2004 17:02:51 -0400
Cc: Pablo Neira <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Theres also a fundamental issue in trying to control bind/connect
behavior with the way this patch tries to "fix" things. Theres at least
one app i know of which depends on this.
Dave, whats acceptable? My thinking is this should probably be
controlled by something like the SE linux path?

cheers,
jamal

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 04:02, Herbert Xu wrote: 
> Pablo Neira <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > If you try to bind/connect to a non existant netlink socket, client 
> > socket gets succesfully inserted as head in the socket list. The problem 
> > is that the head can't be delete, so that socket stays in the list 
> > forever (see sk_del_node_init).
> 
> Huh? Where does it say that the head can't be deleted?


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