Re: [PATCH 4.4 106/124] netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Sat Aug 04 2018 - 19:21:15 EST


On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 12:12:02AM +0100, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 15:49 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > dmesg output attached, please let me know if you need anything else.
>
> Could you try with this diff instead?
> It looks like, I'm too bad with shifts and shifted for 64 bytes.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Dmitry

> diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> index 7d860a22e5fb..b78bb7dc06fe 100644
> --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> @@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
>
> if (nlk->ngroups == 0)
> groups = 0;
> - else
> + else if (nlk->ngroups < 64)
> groups &= (1ULL << nlk->ngroups) - 1;
>
> bound = nlk->bound;

This fixed my issue. If needed:

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the quick response!
Nathan