[libvirt] [PATCH V2] systemd: fix ready notification on abstract socket

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Jul 12 17:25:04 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:07:10AM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> At least with systemd v210, NOTIFY_SOCKET is abstact, e.g.
> @/org/freedesktop/systemd1/notify. sendmsg() fails on such a socket
> with "Connection refused". The unix(7) man page contains the following
> details wrt abstract socket addresses
> 
> abstract: an abstract socket address is distinguished (from a
>           pathname socket) by the fact that sun_path[0] is a null byte
>           ('\0').  The socket's address in this namespace is given by the
>           additional bytes in sun_path that are covered by the specified
>           length of the address structure.  (Null bytes in the name have
>           no special significance.)
> 
> So we need to be more precise about the address length, setting it to
> the sizeof sa_family_t + length of address copied to sun_path instead
> of setting it to the sizeof the entire sockaddr_un struct.
> 
> Resolves: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987668
> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>

ACK


Regards,
Daniel
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