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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 11 May 2012 12:14:18 +0000 (13:14 +0100)
commita13e640b8d17e0a5ab4b388431f877e2feef7abf
treee32458c4af6491b560e956f37e0b58d1e785f3d9
parent0d63a9816f225228d72461444c6b1e5f58c6f90b
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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/sctp/socket.c