Re: [PATCH v3] net: Add UNIX_DIAG_UID to Netlink UNIX socket diagnostics.

From: David Miller
Date: Mon May 20 2019 - 20:14:31 EST


From: Felipe Gasper <felipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 20:38:39 -0500

> Author: Felipe Gasper <felipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat May 18 20:04:40 2019 -0500
>
> net: Add UNIX_DIAG_UID to Netlink UNIX socket diagnostics.

Please format your patch submission properly.

This Author: and Date: should not be here in the commit message.

The "net: Add UNIX_DIAG_UID to Netlink UNIX socket diagnostics." should
be exclusively in your Subject line.

And:

> This adds the ability for Netlink to report a socket's UID along with the
> other UNIX diagnostic information that is already available. This will
> allow diagnostic tools greater insight into which users control which
> socket.
>
> To test this, do the following as a non-root user:
>
> unshare -U -r bash
> nc -l -U user.socket.$$ &
>
> .. and verify from within that same session that Netlink UNIX socket
> diagnostics report the socket's UID as 0. Also verify that Netlink UNIX
> socket diagnostics report the socket's UID as the user's UID from an
> unprivileged process in a different session. Verify the same from
> a root process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Gasper <felipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This is all unnecessarily indented.

I know what you did, you took something like "git show" output and
just posted it to the list here.

But that's not what you're supposed to do.

Thanks.