Re: [PATCH] scm: fold __scm_send() into scm_send()

[Chris Wright]

* David S. Miller (davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> From: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:36:36 -0800
> 
> > The point of Catherine's original patch was to make sure there's always
> > a security identifier associated with AF_UNIX messages.  So receiver
> > can always check it (same as having credentials even w/out sender
> > control message passing them).  Now we will have garbage for sid.
> 
> I'm seriously considering backing out Catherine's AF_UNIX patch from
> the net-2.6.17 tree before submitting it to Linus later today so that
> none of this crap goes in right now.
> 
> It appears that this needs a lot more sorting out, so for now that's
> probably the right thing to do.

I won't object.  I checked your tree, it looks OK to me.  The actual
broken patch appears in -mm, and the security_sid_to_context snafu
is primarily cosmetic at this point (the exports, etc fixed the real
compilation issues AFAICT).  But, again, if you want to drop that's fine
w/ me.  I'm sure Catherine can cleanup and resend as needed.

thanks,
-chris
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