netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netlink: access nlk groups safely in netlink bind and getname

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Date:   Wed, 06 Sep 2017 21:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, fw@...len.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netlink: access nlk groups safely in netlink bind
 and getname

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Wed,  6 Sep 2017 11:53:29 +0800

> Now there is no lock protecting nlk ngroups/groups' accessing in
> netlink bind and getname. It's safe from nlk groups' setting in
> netlink_release, but not from netlink_realloc_groups called by
> netlink_setsockopt.
> 
> netlink_lock_table is needed in both netlink bind and getname when
> accessing nlk groups.
> 
> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied.