From: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netlink: Make groups check less stupid in netlink_bind()
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 22:40:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180903214051.4433-1-dima@arista.com> (raw)
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@davemloft.net>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Fairly-blamed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.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
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