Hello! > TIPC wants the user to fill in the pid to use in the nlmsghdr portion of > a particular message.
It is wrong. netlink_pid used not to be associated with process pids. Kernel used pid just as a seed to calculate a random value to bind, when user did not bind explicitly. It is equal to current->pid occasionally. F.e. libnetlink from iproute autobinds and gets netlink_pid with getsockname(). When user binds the socket himself, he was free to bind to any value, including pid and tgid. Actually, I remember one discussion. Herbert, wait a minute... That's it: February 2005, Subject: [PATCH] Add audit uid to netlink credentials We decided (or not?) that binding to anything but tgid and pid must be prohibited by security reasons. Apaprently, the finding was lost. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
