netdev - [PATCH] netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups

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Message-Id: <20180727155444.17081-1-dima@arista.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:54:44 +0100
From:   Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups

Make ABI more strict about subscribing to group > ngroups.
Code doesn't check for that and it looks bogus.
(one can subscribe to non-existing group)
Still, it's possible to bind() to all possible groups with (-1)

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 393573a99a5a..ac805caed2e2 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1008,6 +1008,7 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 	}
+	groups &= (1UL << nlk->ngroups) - 1;
 
 	bound = nlk->bound;
 	if (bound) {
-- 
2.13.6