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

From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Mon Jul 30 2018 - 15:50:34 EST


On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 12:43 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Oh, yeah, I have this in .gitconfig:
[core]
abbrev = 12

But I was formatting this not on my laptop and have managed to mislook.
Sorry about "commit" and the breakage.

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

Thank you.