On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 09:28 +0000, Junling Zheng wrote: > Hi, Greg: > > We found that after v3.10.73, recvmsg might return -EFAULT while -EINVAL > was expected. > > We tested it through the recvmsg01 testcase come from LTP testsuit. It set > msg->msg_namelen to -1 and the recvmsg syscall returned errno 14, which is > unexpected (errno 22 is expected): > > recvmsg01 4 TFAIL : invalid socket length ; returned -1 (expected -1), > errno 14 (expected 22) > > Linux mainline has no this bug for commit 08adb7dab fixes it accidentally. > However, it is too large and complex to be backported to LTS 3.10. > > So, I made the following patch to fix the above problem for LTS 3.10. [...]
It looks like the 3.2 branch has the same problem, so I've queued this patch up there as well. Thanks a lot. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
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