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sctp: Allow struct sctp_event_subscribe to grow without breaking binaries
authorThomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Tue, 3 Apr 2012 22:17:53 +0000 (22:17 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:51:18 +0000 (09:51 -0700)
commit3109ea06da8538ee3ded3489b26065a3be32f360
treedd6bb6d0624a0c9c93e43980ab6e9077137941f9
parent8d2228dd95c656e5fc9af2e8776f9c95e269806f
sctp: Allow struct sctp_event_subscribe to grow without breaking binaries

[ Upstream commit acdd5985364f8dc511a0762fab2e683f29d9d692 ]

getsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) performs a length check and returns
an error if the user provides less bytes than the size of struct
sctp_event_subscribe.

Struct sctp_event_subscribe needs to be extended by an u8 for every
new event or notification type that is added.

This obviously makes getsockopt fail for binaries that are compiled
against an older versions of <net/sctp/user.h> which do not contain
all event types.

This patch changes getsockopt behaviour to no longer return an error
if not enough bytes are being provided by the user. Instead, it
returns as much of sctp_event_subscribe as fits into the provided buffer.

This leads to the new behavior that users see what they have been aware
of at compile time.

The setsockopt(..., SCTP_EVENTS, ...) API is already behaving like this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/sctp/socket.c