From 428f944bd58607021b5a1f85d145c0b50f908c6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Safonov Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 22:40:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] netlink: Make groups check less stupid in netlink_bind() 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" Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Steffen Klassert Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Fairly-blamed-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- 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;