Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] MCTP sockaddr padding check/initialisation fixup

From: Jeremy Kerr
Date: Thu Nov 04 2021 - 20:23:06 EST


Hi Eugene,

> While the first commit is definitely an ABI breakage, it is proposed
> in hopes that the change is made soon enough (the interface appeared
> only in Linux 5.15) to avoid affecting any existing user space.

Of the two applications that currently use AF_MCTP:

- one is already zeroing the sockaddr_mctp
- the other has a fix for two of the potential sendmsg() & bind()
calls: https://github.com/CodeConstruct/mctp/commit/072bafe7

Given we have a confined set of applications (and users), and they're
both now compatible with this change:

Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

For both patches.

Cheers,


Jeremy