Re: [PATCH v4 01/12] libvhost-user: set msg.msg_control to NULL when it is empty

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 09:44:45AM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On some OS (e.g. macOS) sendmsg() returns -1 (errno EINVAL) if
> the `struct msghdr` has the field `msg_controllen` set to 0, but
> `msg_control` is not NULL.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daud?? <philmd@linaro.org>

Philippe's name has got mangled here

> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> ---
>  subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c 
> b/subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c
> index a879149fef..22bea0c775 100644
> --- a/subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c
> +++ b/subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c
> @@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ vu_message_write(VuDev *dev, int conn_fd, VhostUserMsg 
> *vmsg)
>          memcpy(CMSG_DATA(cmsg), vmsg->fds, fdsize);
>      } else {
>          msg.msg_controllen = 0;
> +        msg.msg_control = NULL;
>      }
>  
>      do {
> -- 
> 2.45.0
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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