Re: [PATCH] unix.7: SO_PEERCRED: Mention listen(2)

[Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>]

From: Alexey Tikhonov <atikhono@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:28:34 +0100
> In case of connected AF_UNIX stream sockets, server-side
> credentials are set at the time of a call to listen(2),
> not when client-side calls connect(2).
> 
> This is important if server side process changes UID/GID
> after listen(2) and before connect(2).
> 
> Reproducer is available in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247682
> 
> Behavior was confirmed in the email thread
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/CABPeg3a9L0142gmdZZ+0hoD+Q3Vgv0BQ21g8Z+gf2kznWouErA@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Tikhonov <atikhono@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>

Thanks!


> ---
>  man7/unix.7 | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7
> index e9edad467..71cdfc758 100644
> --- a/man7/unix.7
> +++ b/man7/unix.7
> @@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ This read-only socket option returns the
>  credentials of the peer process connected to this socket.
>  The returned credentials are those that were in effect at the time
>  of the call to
> -.BR connect (2)
> +.BR connect (2),
> +.BR listen (2),
>  or
>  .BR socketpair (2).
>  .IP
> -- 
> 2.41.0