net: Block MSG_CMSG_COMPAT in send(m)msg and recv(m)msg
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org, trinity@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S.
Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] net: Block MSG_CMSG_COMPAT in send(m)msg and recv(m)msg
MSG_CMSG_COMPAT is (AFAIK) not intended to be part of the API --
it's a hack that steals a bit to indicate to other networking code
that a compat entry was used. So don't allow it from a non-compat
syscall.
This prevents an oops when running this code:
int main()
{
int s;
struct sockaddr_in addr;
struct msghdr *hdr;