Re: [PATCH] linux 2.9.10-rc1: Fix oops in unix_dgram_sendmsg when using SELinux and SOCK_SEQPACKET

Chris Wright wrote:

* Ross Kendall Axe (ross.axe@blueyonder.co.uk) wrote:

quoted

Taking this idea further, couldn't we split unix_dgram_sendmsg into 2 
functions, do_unix_dgram_sendmsg and do_unix_connectionless_sendmsg (and 
similarly for unix_stream_sendmsg), then all we'd need is:

<pseudocode>
static int do_unix_dgram_sendmsg(...);
static int do_unix_stream_sendmsg(...);
static int do_unix_connectionless_sendmsg(...);
static int do_unix_connectional_sendmsg(...);

We could probably break it down to better functions and helpers, but I'm
not sure that's quite the breakdown.  That looks to me like an indirect
way to pass a flag which is already encoded in the ops and sk_type.

The idea of that breakdown was to encode the semantics purely into the ops 
and mostly ignore sk_type. An alternative would be to create a couple of 
macros is_connectionless and is_stream and lump it all together in one big 
unix_sendmsg. Unfortunately, unix_sendmsg could end up a bit too large. 
IMHO, unix_{dgram,stream}_sendmsg are large as it is.

At anyrate, for 2.6.10 the changes should be small and obvious.
Better refactoring should be left for 2.6.11.

Agreed. I had my eye on 2.6.11 anyway.

thanks,
-chris

Ross