4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 7acf9d4237c46894e0fa0492dd96314a41742e84 ]
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -985,6 +985,7 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *s
if (err)
return err;
}
+ groups &= (1UL << nlk->ngroups) - 1;
bound = nlk->bound;
if (bound) {
