3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html