Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Return error instead of partial read for saved syn headers

From: David Miller
Date: Tue May 19 2015 - 16:33:58 EST


From: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 14:35:58 -0400

> Currently the getsockopt() requesting the cached contents of the syn
> packet headers will fail silently if the caller uses a buffer that is
> too small to contain the requested data. Rather than fail silently and
> discard the headers, getsockopt() should return an error and report the
> required size to hold the data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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