With CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y and CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX=y, using SOCK_SEQPACKET unix domain sockets causes an oops in the superfluous(?) call to security_unix_may_send in sock_dgram_sendmsg. This patch avoids making this call for SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets. Signed-off-by: Ross Axe --- linux-2.6.10-rc1/net/unix/af_unix.c.orig 2004-11-13 21:04:53.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.10-rc1/net/unix/af_unix.c 2004-11-13 21:12:23.000000000 +0000 @@ -1354,9 +1354,11 @@ restart: if (other->sk_shutdown & RCV_SHUTDOWN) goto out_unlock; - err = security_unix_may_send(sk->sk_socket, other->sk_socket); - if (err) - goto out_unlock; + if (sk->sk_type != SOCK_SEQPACKET) { + err = security_unix_may_send(sk->sk_socket, other->sk_socket); + if (err) + goto out_unlock; + } if (unix_peer(other) != sk && (skb_queue_len(&other->sk_receive_queue) >