Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:42:50 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Svenning =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8rensen?= <sss@secomea.dk>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPC: bugfix for msgrcv with msgtyp < 0
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On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:49:25 -0400 Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:

> On 08/24/2013 07:44 AM, Svenning S__rensen wrote:
> > According to 'man msgrcv':
> > "If msgtyp is less than 0, the first message of the lowest type that is less
> > than or equal to the absolute value of msgtyp shall be received."
> >
> > Bug: The kernel only returns a message if its type is 1; other messages with
> > type < abs(msgtype) will never get returned.
> >
> > Fix: After having traversed the list to find the first message with the
> > lowest type, we need to actually return that message.
> 
> Sorry for the breakage. Needs to go to -stable as well.

Do you know which commit caused the regression?  That would help those
who wish to fix up their kernels.

> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
> 
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