Re: netlink: Add netlink_bound helper and use it in netlink_getname

[Herbert Xu]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 03:52:45PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> Ah, yeah, you're right.  We need to check that there because it may
> contain a garbage value.  I still think it'd better to use
> netlink_bound() test in connect() too tho.

Well I disagree.  When I say that it returns to user-space I really
mean that the next time we use portid via the same call path that
triggered the connect we must be checking nlk->bound anyway.

Good luck finding more bugs in this code :)

Cheers,
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