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

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Date:   Sun, 05 Aug 2018 00:44:28 +0100
From:   Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     natechancellor@...il.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, steffen.klassert@...unet.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 106/124] netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent
 groups

On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 16:33 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
> 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.