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<title>tipc: Change nla_policy for bearer-related names to NLA_NUL_STRING</title>
<updated>2023-11-20T09:29:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shigeru Yoshida</name>
<email>syoshida@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-10-30T07:55:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 19b3f72a41a8751e26bffc093bb7e1cef29ad579 ]

syzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue [1]:

=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strlen lib/string.c:418 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strstr+0xb8/0x2f0 lib/string.c:756
 strlen lib/string.c:418 [inline]
 strstr+0xb8/0x2f0 lib/string.c:756
 tipc_nl_node_reset_link_stats+0x3ea/0xb50 net/tipc/node.c:2595
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:971 [inline]
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1051 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x11ec/0x1290 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1066
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x371/0x650 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2545
 genl_rcv+0x40/0x60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1075
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1342 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0xf47/0x1250 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1368
 netlink_sendmsg+0x1238/0x13d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1910
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2541
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2595
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2624 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2633 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2631 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2631
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x12f/0xb70 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x577/0xa80 mm/slub.c:3523
 kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:559
 __alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:650
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]
 netlink_alloc_large_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1214 [inline]
 netlink_sendmsg+0xb34/0x13d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1885
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2541
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2595
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2624 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2633 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2631 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2631
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

TIPC bearer-related names including link names must be null-terminated
strings. If a link name which is not null-terminated is passed through
netlink, strstr() and similar functions can cause buffer overrun. This
causes the above issue.

This patch changes the nla_policy for bearer-related names from NLA_STRING
to NLA_NUL_STRING. This resolves the issue by ensuring that only
null-terminated strings are accepted as bearer-related names.

syzbot reported similar uninit-value issue related to bearer names [2]. The
root cause of this issue is that a non-null-terminated bearer name was
passed. This patch also resolved this issue.

Fixes: 7be57fc69184 ("tipc: add link get/dump to new netlink api")
Fixes: 0655f6a8635b ("tipc: add bearer disable/enable to new netlink api")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+5138ca807af9d2b42574@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5138ca807af9d2b42574 [1]
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+9425c47dccbcb4c17d51@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9425c47dccbcb4c17d51 [2]
Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida &lt;syoshida@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231030075540.3784537-1-syoshida@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 19b3f72a41a8751e26bffc093bb7e1cef29ad579 ]

syzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue [1]:

=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strlen lib/string.c:418 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strstr+0xb8/0x2f0 lib/string.c:756
 strlen lib/string.c:418 [inline]
 strstr+0xb8/0x2f0 lib/string.c:756
 tipc_nl_node_reset_link_stats+0x3ea/0xb50 net/tipc/node.c:2595
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:971 [inline]
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1051 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x11ec/0x1290 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1066
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x371/0x650 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2545
 genl_rcv+0x40/0x60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1075
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1342 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0xf47/0x1250 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1368
 netlink_sendmsg+0x1238/0x13d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1910
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2541
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2595
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2624 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2633 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2631 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2631
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x12f/0xb70 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x577/0xa80 mm/slub.c:3523
 kmalloc_reserve+0x13d/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:559
 __alloc_skb+0x318/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:650
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1286 [inline]
 netlink_alloc_large_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1214 [inline]
 netlink_sendmsg+0xb34/0x13d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1885
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:753 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x9c2/0xd60 net/socket.c:2541
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2595
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2624 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2633 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2631 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x490 net/socket.c:2631
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

TIPC bearer-related names including link names must be null-terminated
strings. If a link name which is not null-terminated is passed through
netlink, strstr() and similar functions can cause buffer overrun. This
causes the above issue.

This patch changes the nla_policy for bearer-related names from NLA_STRING
to NLA_NUL_STRING. This resolves the issue by ensuring that only
null-terminated strings are accepted as bearer-related names.

syzbot reported similar uninit-value issue related to bearer names [2]. The
root cause of this issue is that a non-null-terminated bearer name was
passed. This patch also resolved this issue.

Fixes: 7be57fc69184 ("tipc: add link get/dump to new netlink api")
Fixes: 0655f6a8635b ("tipc: add bearer disable/enable to new netlink api")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+5138ca807af9d2b42574@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5138ca807af9d2b42574 [1]
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+9425c47dccbcb4c17d51@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9425c47dccbcb4c17d51 [2]
Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida &lt;syoshida@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231030075540.3784537-1-syoshida@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tipc: add missing attribute validation for MTU property</title>
<updated>2020-03-18T06:14:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-03T05:05:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 213320a67962ff6e7b83b704d55cbebc341426db ]

Add missing attribute validation for TIPC_NLA_PROP_MTU
to the netlink policy.

Fixes: 901271e0403a ("tipc: implement configuration of UDP media MTU")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 213320a67962ff6e7b83b704d55cbebc341426db ]

Add missing attribute validation for TIPC_NLA_PROP_MTU
to the netlink policy.

Fixes: 901271e0403a ("tipc: implement configuration of UDP media MTU")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: switch to rhashtable iterator</title>
<updated>2018-08-30T01:04:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-24T19:28:06+00:00</published>
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syzbot reported a use-after-free in tipc_group_fill_sock_diag(),
where tipc_group_fill_sock_diag() still reads tsk-&gt;group meanwhile
tipc_group_delete() just deletes it in tipc_release().

tipc_nl_sk_walk() aims to lock this sock when walking each sock
in the hash table to close race conditions with sock changes like
this one, by acquiring tsk-&gt;sk.sk_lock.slock spinlock, unfortunately
this doesn't work at all. All non-BH call path should take
lock_sock() instead to make it work.

tipc_nl_sk_walk() brutally iterates with raw rht_for_each_entry_rcu()
where RCU read lock is required, this is the reason why lock_sock()
can't be taken on this path. This could be resolved by switching to
rhashtable iterator API's, where taking a sleepable lock is possible.
Also, the iterator API's are friendly for restartable calls like
diag dump, the last position is remembered behind the scence,
all we need to do here is saving the iterator into cb-&gt;args[].

I tested this with parallel tipc diag dump and thousands of tipc
socket creation and release, no crash or memory leak.

Reported-by: syzbot+b9c8f3ab2994b7cd1625@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Cc: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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syzbot reported a use-after-free in tipc_group_fill_sock_diag(),
where tipc_group_fill_sock_diag() still reads tsk-&gt;group meanwhile
tipc_group_delete() just deletes it in tipc_release().

tipc_nl_sk_walk() aims to lock this sock when walking each sock
in the hash table to close race conditions with sock changes like
this one, by acquiring tsk-&gt;sk.sk_lock.slock spinlock, unfortunately
this doesn't work at all. All non-BH call path should take
lock_sock() instead to make it work.

tipc_nl_sk_walk() brutally iterates with raw rht_for_each_entry_rcu()
where RCU read lock is required, this is the reason why lock_sock()
can't be taken on this path. This could be resolved by switching to
rhashtable iterator API's, where taking a sleepable lock is possible.
Also, the iterator API's are friendly for restartable calls like
diag dump, the last position is remembered behind the scence,
all we need to do here is saving the iterator into cb-&gt;args[].

I tested this with parallel tipc diag dump and thousands of tipc
socket creation and release, no crash or memory leak.

Reported-by: syzbot+b9c8f3ab2994b7cd1625@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Cc: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: fix possible crash in __tipc_nl_net_set()</title>
<updated>2018-04-16T22:08:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-16T15:29:43+00:00</published>
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syzbot reported a crash in __tipc_nl_net_set() caused by NULL dereference.

We need to check that both TIPC_NLA_NET_NODEID and TIPC_NLA_NET_NODEID_W1
are present.

We also need to make sure userland provided u64 attributes.

Fixes: d50ccc2d3909 ("tipc: add 128-bit node identifier")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Cc: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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syzbot reported a crash in __tipc_nl_net_set() caused by NULL dereference.

We need to check that both TIPC_NLA_NET_NODEID and TIPC_NLA_NET_NODEID_W1
are present.

We also need to make sure userland provided u64 attributes.

Fixes: d50ccc2d3909 ("tipc: add 128-bit node identifier")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Cc: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: add policy for TIPC_NLA_NET_ADDR</title>
<updated>2018-04-16T22:08:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-16T15:29:42+00:00</published>
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Before syzbot/KMSAN bites, add the missing policy for TIPC_NLA_NET_ADDR

Fixes: 27c21416727a ("tipc: add net set to new netlink api")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Cc: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Before syzbot/KMSAN bites, add the missing policy for TIPC_NLA_NET_ADDR

Fixes: 27c21416727a ("tipc: add net set to new netlink api")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Cc: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions</title>
<updated>2017-04-13T17:58:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T12:34:07+00:00</published>
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Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic
netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers
(except for some in the core.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic
netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers
(except for some in the core.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genetlink: mark families as __ro_after_init</title>
<updated>2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-24T12:40:05+00:00</published>
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Now genl_register_family() is the only thing (other than the
users themselves, perhaps, but I didn't find any doing that)
writing to the family struct.

In all families that I found, genl_register_family() is only
called from __init functions (some indirectly, in which case
I've add __init annotations to clarifly things), so all can
actually be marked __ro_after_init.

This protects the data structure from accidental corruption.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Now genl_register_family() is the only thing (other than the
users themselves, perhaps, but I didn't find any doing that)
writing to the family struct.

In all families that I found, genl_register_family() is only
called from __init functions (some indirectly, in which case
I've add __init annotations to clarifly things), so all can
actually be marked __ro_after_init.

This protects the data structure from accidental corruption.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genetlink: statically initialize families</title>
<updated>2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-24T12:40:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=489111e5c25b93be80340c3113d71903d7c82136'/>
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Instead of providing macros/inline functions to initialize
the families, make all users initialize them statically and
get rid of the macros.

This reduces the kernel code size by about 1.6k on x86-64
(with allyesconfig).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Instead of providing macros/inline functions to initialize
the families, make all users initialize them statically and
get rid of the macros.

This reduces the kernel code size by about 1.6k on x86-64
(with allyesconfig).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>genetlink: no longer support using static family IDs</title>
<updated>2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-24T12:40:02+00:00</published>
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Static family IDs have never really been used, the only
use case was the workaround I introduced for those users
that assumed their family ID was also their multicast
group ID.

Additionally, because static family IDs would never be
reserved by the generic netlink code, using a relatively
low ID would only work for built-in families that can be
registered immediately after generic netlink is started,
which is basically only the control family (apart from
the workaround code, which I also had to add code for so
it would reserve those IDs)

Thus, anything other than GENL_ID_GENERATE is flawed and
luckily not used except in the cases I mentioned. Move
those workarounds into a few lines of code, and then get
rid of GENL_ID_GENERATE entirely, making it more robust.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Static family IDs have never really been used, the only
use case was the workaround I introduced for those users
that assumed their family ID was also their multicast
group ID.

Additionally, because static family IDs would never be
reserved by the generic netlink code, using a relatively
low ID would only work for built-in families that can be
registered immediately after generic netlink is started,
which is basically only the control family (apart from
the workaround code, which I also had to add code for so
it would reserve those IDs)

Thus, anything other than GENL_ID_GENERATE is flawed and
luckily not used except in the cases I mentioned. Move
those workarounds into a few lines of code, and then get
rid of GENL_ID_GENERATE entirely, making it more robust.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genetlink: introduce and use genl_family_attrbuf()</title>
<updated>2016-10-27T20:16:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-24T12:40:01+00:00</published>
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This helper function allows family implementations to access
their family's attrbuf. This gets rid of the attrbuf usage
in families, and also adds locking validation, since it's not
valid to use the attrbuf with parallel_ops or outside of the
dumpit callback.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This helper function allows family implementations to access
their family's attrbuf. This gets rid of the attrbuf usage
in families, and also adds locking validation, since it's not
valid to use the attrbuf with parallel_ops or outside of the
dumpit callback.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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