diff --git a/kernel/sys/sys_net.c b/kernel/sys/sys_net.c
index 179bf28..b577308 100644
--- a/kernel/sys/sys_net.c
+++ b/kernel/sys/sys_net.c
@@ -596,6 +596,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(recvfrom)
             cap = alen;
         if (cap > 0 && copy_to_user(uaddr, &sa, (uint64)cap) < 0)
             return -EFAULT;
+    } else if (sock_domain(s) == AF_NETLINK) {
+        // Everything on a netlink socket here comes from the kernel: port id
+        // 0, no groups. GLib's network monitor checks exactly that before it
+        // believes a message, and with no address at all it hit an assertion
+        // and every GNOME program that watches the network aborted.
+        uint16 nl[6] = { AF_NETLINK, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
+        alen = (int)sizeof(nl);
+        int cap = alen;
+        if (ulenp && get_user(cap, ulenp) < 0)
+            return -EFAULT;
+        if (cap > alen)
+            cap = alen;
+        if (cap > 0 && copy_to_user(uaddr, nl, (uint64)cap) < 0)
+            return -EFAULT;
     }
 
     if (ulenp && copy_to_user(ulenp, &alen, sizeof(alen)) < 0)
@@ -1185,6 +1199,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(recvmsg)
                 alen = m.msg_namelen;
             if (alen && copy_to_user((addr_t)m.msg_name, &sa, alen) < 0)
                 return -EFAULT;
+        } else if (sock_domain(s) == AF_NETLINK) {
+            // The kernel, as in recvfrom above.
+            uint16 nl[6] = { AF_NETLINK, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
+            alen = (uint32)sizeof(nl);
+            if (alen > m.msg_namelen)
+                alen = m.msg_namelen;
+            if (alen && copy_to_user((addr_t)m.msg_name, nl, alen) < 0)
+                return -EFAULT;
+            alen = (uint32)sizeof(nl);
         }
         if (copy_to_user(umsg + __builtin_offsetof(struct msghdr, msg_namelen),
                          &alen, sizeof(alen)) < 0)