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SubjectRe: [PATCH/FIX] net: Block MSG_CMSG_COMPAT in send(m)msg and recv(m)msg

* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> 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@davemloft.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
>
> Applied and queued up for -stable.

Thanks David!

Ingo


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