Re: [RFC] [PATCH] placement of unix_may_send hook

gregat_private

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:06:59AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> The patch below proposes moving the unix_may_send socket hook in
> unix_dgram_sendmsg() to a point after the dead/dying peer detection logic
> in the main kernel.
> 
> It is not uncommon for a process to try and send to a connected dead peer
> socket (e.g. calling syslog() while syslogd is being restarted), and
> moving the hook prevents the need to try and perform the detection logic
> in an LSM module (which won't really work properly anyway).

Looks good to me.

thanks,

greg k-h

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