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

From: Chris Vance (cvanceat_private)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 05:57:02 PDT

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    Looks fine to me too.
    
    chris.
    
    On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Greg KH wrote:
    
    > 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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