From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:51:46 -0400

> From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[email protected]>
> 
> Sergei Trofimovich reported that pulse audio sends SCM_CREDENTIALS
> as a control message to TCP. Since __sock_cmsg_send does not
> support SCM_RIGHTS and SCM_CREDENTIALS, it returns an error and
> hence breaks pulse audio over TCP.
> 
> SCM_RIGHTS and SCM_CREDENTIALS are sent on the SOL_SOCKET layer
> but they semantically belong to SOL_UNIX. Since all
> cmsg-processing functions including sock_cmsg_send ignore control
> messages of other layers, it is best to ignore SCM_RIGHTS
> and SCM_CREDENTIALS for consistency (and also for fixing pulse
> audio over TCP).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Sergei Trofimovich <[email protected]>

Please resubmit this with a proper "Fixes: " tag which tells which
commit introduced this regression.

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