* David S. Miller (davem@davemloft.net) wrote:

From: Chris Wright <redacted>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:36:36 -0800

quoted

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