Re: [PATCH] netlink: Don't shift with UB on nlk->ngroups

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jul 30 2018 - 15:43:34 EST


From: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 18:32:36 +0100

> On i386 nlk->ngroups might be 32 or 0. Which leads to UB, resulting in
> hang during boot.
> Check for 0 ngroups and use (unsigned long long) as a type to shift.
>
> Fixes: commit 7acf9d4237c46894e0fa0492dd96314a41742e84 ("netlink: Do not
> subscribe to non-existent groups").

Please, in the future, format your Fixes: tag correctly. No need
to say the work "commit", please do not chop up the line no matter
how long it is, and please provide 12 digits of SHA1_ID value, rather
than the whole thing.

> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.