This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
thermal: shorten too long mcast group name
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
thermal-shorten-too-long-mcast-group-name.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 91ae28f8557a672b36e50dc20d49d9993b3c90f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:50:40 -0400
Subject: thermal: shorten too long mcast group name
From: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commits 73214f5d9f33b79918b1f7babddd5c8af28dd23d
and f1e79e208076ffe7bad97158275f1c572c04f5c7, the latter
adds an assertion to genetlink to prevent this from happening
again in the future. ]
The original name is too long.
Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/thermal.h | 2 +-
net/netlink/genetlink.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/thermal.h
+++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
/* Adding event notification support elements */
#define THERMAL_GENL_FAMILY_NAME "thermal_event"
#define THERMAL_GENL_VERSION 0x01
-#define THERMAL_GENL_MCAST_GROUP_NAME "thermal_mc_group"
+#define THERMAL_GENL_MCAST_GROUP_NAME "thermal_mc_grp"
/* Default Thermal Governor */
#if defined(CONFIG_THERMAL_DEFAULT_GOV_STEP_WISE)
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ int genl_register_mc_group(struct genl_f
int err = 0;
BUG_ON(grp->name[0] == '\0');
+ BUG_ON(memchr(grp->name, '\0', GENL_NAMSIZ) == NULL);
genl_lock();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yamato@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/thermal-shorten-too-long-mcast-group-name.patch
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