Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:42:50 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IPC: bugfix for msgrcv with msgtyp < 0 |
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On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:49:25 -0400 Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
> On 08/24/2013 07:44 AM, Svenning S__rensen wrote: > > According to 'man msgrcv': > > "If msgtyp is less than 0, the first message of the lowest type that is less > > than or equal to the absolute value of msgtyp shall be received." > > > > Bug: The kernel only returns a message if its type is 1; other messages with > > type < abs(msgtype) will never get returned. > > > > Fix: After having traversed the list to find the first message with the > > lowest type, we need to actually return that message. > > Sorry for the breakage. Needs to go to -stable as well.
Do you know which commit caused the regression? That would help those who wish to fix up their kernels.
> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> >
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