kernel-fxtec-pro1x/net
Alexey Kuznetsov a70ea994a0 [NETLINK]: Fix a severe bug
netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink.
Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket,
so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be,
and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock
of rtnetlink.

Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional
argument to netlink_attachskb().

A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed
to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even
have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases:
1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot
   wait for buffer space.
2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered
   to some recipients.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-09 16:43:38 -08:00
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802 [NET] snap: needs hardware checksum fix 2006-02-02 16:53:26 -08:00
8021q [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
appletalk [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
atm [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
ax25 [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
bluetooth [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
bridge [NETFILTER]: Fix possible overflow in netfilters do_replace() 2006-02-04 23:51:25 -08:00
core [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs 2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00
dccp [PATCH] remove bogus asm/bug.h includes. 2006-02-07 20:56:35 -05:00
decnet [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
econet [ECONET]: Use macro for spinlock_t definition. 2006-01-04 13:56:08 -08:00
ethernet [NET]: Use newer is_multicast_ether_addr() in some files 2006-01-06 13:05:58 -08:00
ieee80211 [PATCH] Typo corrections for ieee80211 2006-01-30 17:41:36 -05:00
ipv4 [PATCH] ipv4 NULL noise removal 2006-02-07 20:57:37 -05:00
ipv6 [IPV6]: Address autoconfiguration does not work after device down/up cycle 2006-02-08 16:13:28 -08:00
ipx [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
irda [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
key [AF_KEY]: no message type set 2006-01-24 12:57:19 -08:00
lapb
llc [NET]: Add a dev_ioctl() fallback to sock_ioctl() 2006-01-03 14:18:33 -08:00
netfilter [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: fix incorrect memset() size in FTP helper 2006-02-04 23:51:23 -08:00
netlink [NETLINK]: Fix a severe bug 2006-02-09 16:43:38 -08:00
netrom [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
packet [NET]: Fix some whitespace issues in af_packet.c 2006-01-23 16:28:02 -08:00
rose [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
rxrpc [NET]: "signed long" -> "long" 2006-01-17 13:03:54 -08:00
sched [PKT_SCHED]: Handle SCTP/DCCP in sfq_hash 2006-01-17 13:01:06 -08:00
sctp [SCTP]: Fix 'fast retransmit' to send a TSN only once. 2006-02-02 16:57:31 -08:00
sunrpc SUNRPC: Move upcall out of auth->au_ops->crcreate() 2006-02-01 12:52:25 -05:00
tipc [TIPC] Avoid polluting the global namespace 2006-01-18 00:45:16 +01:00
unix [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
wanrouter [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
x25 [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
xfrm [PATCH] remove bogus asm/bug.h includes. 2006-02-07 20:56:35 -05:00
compat.c
Kconfig [NET]: Add CONFIG_NETDEBUG to suppress bad packet messages. 2006-02-02 20:40:09 -08:00
Makefile [TIPC] Initial merge 2006-01-12 14:06:31 -08:00
nonet.c [NET]: Fix sock_init() return value. 2006-01-03 13:11:17 -08:00
socket.c [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs 2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00
sysctl_net.c
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