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Re: [PATCH] linux 2.9.10-rc1: Fix oops in unix_dgram_sendmsg when using

To: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux 2.9.10-rc1: Fix oops in unix_dgram_sendmsg when using SELinux and SOCK_SEQPACKET
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:34:11 -0800
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ross Kendall Axe <ross.axe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, lkml <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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* Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Iau, 2004-11-18 at 03:42, James Morris wrote:
> > > Well, my reading of socket(2) suggests that it's _not_ supposed to work.
> > 
> > sendto() on a non connected socket should fail with ENOTCONN.
> 
> Not entirely true at all. A network protocol can implement lazy binding
> and
> do implicit binding on the sendto. Other protocols might not actually
> have
> a receiving component so have no bind() functionality at all.

Just to be clear, this fix is not at socket layer, but specific to UNIX
domain socket protocol layer.

thanks,
-chris
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