Re: [PATCH] net/unix: drop obsolete fd-recursion limits

[David Miller]

From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:35:54 +0200

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> With all of this in mind, lets drop the recursion limit. It has no
> additional security value, anymore. On the contrary, it randomly
> confuses message brokers that try to forward file-descriptors, since
> any sendmsg(2) call can fail spuriously with ETOOMANYREFS if a client
> maliciously modifies the FD while inflight.
> 
> Cc: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.