Re: [PATCH 06/18] netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups

From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Fri Jul 27 2018 - 09:43:31 EST


On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 21:22 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:31:32 +0100
>
> > Make ABI more strict about subscribing to group > ngroups.
> > Code doesn't check for that and it looks bogus.
> > (one can subscribe to non-existing group)
> > Still, it's possible to bind() to all possible groups with (-1)
> >
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This really has nothing to do with adding a compat layer for xfrm,
> and is a bug fix that should be submitted separately in it's own
> right.

Sure, will do.

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Thanks,
Dmitry