Re: [PATCH 4.4 106/124] netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups

From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Sat Aug 04 2018 - 19:50:37 EST


On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 00:44 +0100, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 16:33 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 00:26:38 +0100
> >
> > > Thanks for the testing, sorry again for the breakage.
> > > Will send the patch shortly (with sizeof(unsigned long long)
> >
> > instead of
> > > hard-coded 64). Hopefully, not too late.
> >
> > 'groups' is "long unsigned int" not "unsigned long long"
> >
> > long unsigned int groups = nladdr->nl_groups;
> >
> > And nladdr->nl_groups is specified as "__u32"
> >
> > So the size of the relevant bits is actually strictly 32-bit.
> >
> > This makes also the "ULL" in your constant specification incorrect
> > as
> > well.
> >
> > So much crazy stuff going on here :-/
>
> Right, I misslooked that..
> How does this work on Android then?
> I doubt they changed uabi.

Ok, I'm too slow - that is 32, but shift does overflow.
Will send the proper patch in a minute.
Sorry about the mess :C