[PATCH] netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups
From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Fri Jul 27 2018 - 11:54:51 EST
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>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 393573a99a5a..ac805caed2e2 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1008,6 +1008,7 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
if (err)
return err;
}
+ groups &= (1UL << nlk->ngroups) - 1;
bound = nlk->bound;
if (bound) {
--
2.13.6