From: Junling Zheng <zhengjunling@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:28:00 +0000 > 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. Upstream the code doesn't look anything like this, so it's probably just a missing bug fix for -stable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html