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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-11-25 00:09:26 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-11-29 03:26:30 +0400
commit5e53e689b737526308db2b5c9f56e9d0371a1676 (patch)
tree933490eed9b4751978bb9d469d6afb6013646a8d /net/netlink
parent0f0e2159c0c101426b705d70f43b9f423d51c869 (diff)
downloadlinux-5e53e689b737526308db2b5c9f56e9d0371a1676.tar.xz
genetlink/pmcraid: use proper genetlink multicast API
The pmcraid driver is abusing the genetlink API and is using its family ID as the multicast group ID, which is invalid and may belong to somebody else (and likely will.) Make it use the correct API, but since this may already be used as-is by userspace, reserve a family ID for this code and also reserve that group ID to not break userspace assumptions. My previous patch broke event delivery in the driver as I missed that it wasn't using the right API and forgot to update it later in my series. While changing this, I noticed that the genetlink code could use the static group ID instead of a strcmp(), so also do that for the VFS_DQUOT family. Cc: Anil Ravindranath <anil_ravindranath@pmc-sierra.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 803206e82450..713671ae45af 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -74,9 +74,12 @@ static struct list_head family_ht[GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE];
* Bit 17 is marked as already used since the VFS quota code
* also abused this API and relied on family == group ID, we
* cater to that by giving it a static family and group ID.
+ * Bit 18 is marked as already used since the PMCRAID driver
+ * did the same thing as the VFS quota code (maybe copied?)
*/
static unsigned long mc_group_start = 0x3 | BIT(GENL_ID_CTRL) |
- BIT(GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT);
+ BIT(GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT) |
+ BIT(GENL_ID_PMCRAID);
static unsigned long *mc_groups = &mc_group_start;
static unsigned long mc_groups_longs = 1;
@@ -139,6 +142,7 @@ static u16 genl_generate_id(void)
for (i = 0; i <= GENL_MAX_ID - GENL_MIN_ID; i++) {
if (id_gen_idx != GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT &&
+ id_gen_idx != GENL_ID_PMCRAID &&
!genl_family_find_byid(id_gen_idx))
return id_gen_idx;
if (++id_gen_idx > GENL_MAX_ID)
@@ -236,9 +240,12 @@ static int genl_validate_assign_mc_groups(struct genl_family *family)
} else if (strcmp(family->name, "NET_DM") == 0) {
first_id = 1;
BUG_ON(n_groups != 1);
- } else if (strcmp(family->name, "VFS_DQUOT") == 0) {
+ } else if (family->id == GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT) {
first_id = GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT;
BUG_ON(n_groups != 1);
+ } else if (family->id == GENL_ID_PMCRAID) {
+ first_id = GENL_ID_PMCRAID;
+ BUG_ON(n_groups != 1);
} else {
groups_allocated = true;
err = genl_allocate_reserve_groups(n_groups, &first_id);