On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 02:35:22PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Damian Ivanov: > > > I could not find any information if having the socket length limited > > is still something that is required nowadays as it seems this is > > mostly for compatibility reasons? > > I don't know why the kernel limits the socket length. There is no > strict requirement to do so because the userspace interfaces all have > explicit lengths. struct sockaddr_un has a fixed-size buffer, but > that could be worked around, similar to struct dirent. > The kernel doesn't limit this length for any particular technical reason, it limits it as a matter of maintaining ABI compatibility. When the unix address family was written back in the 80's, they decided that the sun_path component was coded to a length of 108 bytes, and so that is now part of the ABI, and can't be changed. Any systemcall expecting a strict 108 byte path may encounter what would appear to be an unterminated string, even if the only thing you did was lengthen the path name. And migrating structure to an arbitrary length string (using a variable array or some such), would completley break the ABI. > The internal kernel interfaces are built on top of struct > sockaddr_storage and do not pass explicit lengths, but those could be > changed. > _______________________________________________ > kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
