netdev - [PATCH] netlink: Make groups check less stupid in netlink

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Message-Id: <20180903214051.4433-1-dima@arista.com>
Date:   Mon,  3 Sep 2018 22:40:51 +0100
From:   Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "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: Make groups check less stupid in netlink_bind()

As Linus noted, the test for 0 is needless, groups type can follow the
usual kernel style and 8*sizeof(unsigned long) is BITS_PER_LONG:

> The code [..] isn't technically incorrect...
> But it is stupid.
> Why stupid? Because the test for 0 is pointless.
>
> Just doing
>        if (nlk->ngroups < 8*sizeof(groups))
>                groups &= (1UL << nlk->ngroups) - 1;
>
> would have been fine and more understandable, since the "mask by shift
> count" already does the right thing for a ngroups value of 0. Now that
> test for zero makes me go "what's special about zero?". It turns out
> that the answer to that is "nothing".
[..]
> The type of "groups" is kind of silly too.
>
> Yeah, "long unsigned int" isn't _technically_ wrong. But we normally
> call that type "unsigned long".

Cleanup my piece of pointlessness.

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
Fairly-blamed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 930d17fa906c..b4a29bcc33b9 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
 	struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
 	struct sockaddr_nl *nladdr = (struct sockaddr_nl *)addr;
 	int err = 0;
-	long unsigned int groups = nladdr->nl_groups;
+	unsigned long groups = nladdr->nl_groups;
 	bool bound;
 
 	if (addr_len < sizeof(struct sockaddr_nl))
@@ -1011,9 +1011,7 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
 			return err;
 	}
 
-	if (nlk->ngroups == 0)
-		groups = 0;
-	else if (nlk->ngroups < 8*sizeof(groups))
+	if (nlk->ngroups < BITS_PER_LONG)
 		groups &= (1UL << nlk->ngroups) - 1;
 
 	bound = nlk->bound;
-- 
2.13.6