Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 09:24:00 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [ 105/124] af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIAL when dest socket is
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On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:47:15AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:41:32 +0200
> 
> > On 2013-04-03 00:11 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 
> >> 3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > I'm seeing several complaints from udevd at boot in both 3.8.6-rc1 and
> > 3.9-rc5: "udevd[56]: sender uid=65534, message ignored".  Reverting the
> > patch below on top of 3.8.6-rc1 fixes that.  I'm using udev version 175
> > here, and 65534 is the uid of user "nobody".
> 
> Greg and Ben, please stop this patch from all of the -stable trees.

Now dropped from the 3.4.x and 3.8.x -stable trees (it wasn't part of
the 3.0.x network patches that I can tell).

> I'm going to revert it and use Eric Biederman's fix instead.

That seems better, breaking older versions of udev, while fun at times,
did seem to annoy a bunch of Ubuntu and Debian users :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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