Re: unix_getname buglet - > 2.5.4(?)

From: Andy Pfiffer (andyp@osdl.org)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 19:14:55 EST


On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 04:06, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Evolution is non-functioning on recent 2.5.X kernels, due to
> mal-performance in getpeername => net/unix/af_unix.c (unix_getname),
> where it seems we switch 'sk' on 'peer', but not the (previously)
> typecast pointer to it; this fixes it.
>
<snip>
> Thanks Joaquim Fellmann (AFAIR) who chased this down to bitkeeper
> changeset 1.262.2.2. Sadly I didn't have time to read the rest of that
> changeset to see if the mistake pops up elsewhere as well. Please CC me
> with replies, not on linux-kernel.
>
> HTH,
>
> Michael Meeks.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103462833225515&w=2

Thanks for the fix!

Keep up the great work, Ximian dudes and dudettes.

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