> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jim Keniston wrote:
>
> > That begs the question: do we trust that nobody but the kernel will send
> > packets to a NETLINK_KERROR socket? Ordinary users can't, but any root
> > application can. Without kerror_netlink_rcv(), such packets don't get
> > dequeued.
>
> Indeed, the kernel socket buffer fills up.
>
> I think this needs to be addressed in the netlink code, per the patch
> below.
Looks good, I'll apply this.
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