From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267614AbTGLFEJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:04:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267625AbTGLFEJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:04:09 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:54456 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267614AbTGLFEH (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:04:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:09:05 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: James Morris Cc: jkenisto@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, akpm@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, rddunlap@osdl.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH - RFC] [1/2] 2.6 must-fix list - kernel error reporting Message-Id: <20030711220905.2ea9ebc5.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <3F0DB9A5.23723BE1@us.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:37:44 +1000 (EST) James Morris wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jim Keniston wrote: > > > That begs the question: do we trust that nobody but the kernel will send > > packets to a NETLINK_KERROR socket? Ordinary users can't, but any root > > application can. Without kerror_netlink_rcv(), such packets don't get > > dequeued. > > Indeed, the kernel socket buffer fills up. > > I think this needs to be addressed in the netlink code, per the patch > below. Looks good, I'll apply this.