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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-11-19 15:19:33 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-11-19 16:39:05 -0500
commit2ecf7536b2787580616d23b6507005d930975ca0 (patch)
tree050b07aaf96d86a83ed42c34511a3f28e1c0d1d4
parente5dcecba015f9774a402ba559b80b16999747e3b (diff)
downloadlinux-2ecf7536b2787580616d23b6507005d930975ca0.tar.bz2
quota/genetlink: use proper genetlink multicast APIs
The quota code 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 the quota code use the correct API, but since this is already used as-is by userspace, reserve a family ID for this code and also reserve that group ID to not break userspace assumptions. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--fs/quota/netlink.c17
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h1
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c10
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/quota/netlink.c b/fs/quota/netlink.c
index 16e8abb7709b..aa22fe03b76c 100644
--- a/fs/quota/netlink.c
+++ b/fs/quota/netlink.c
@@ -11,13 +11,23 @@
/* Netlink family structure for quota */
static struct genl_family quota_genl_family = {
- .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE,
+ /*
+ * Needed due to multicast group ID abuse - old code assumed
+ * the family ID was also a valid multicast group ID (which
+ * isn't true) and userspace might thus rely on it. Assign a
+ * static ID for this group to make dealing with that easier.
+ */
+ .id = GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT,
.hdrsize = 0,
.name = "VFS_DQUOT",
.version = 1,
.maxattr = QUOTA_NL_A_MAX,
};
+static struct genl_multicast_group quota_mcgrp = {
+ .name = "events",
+};
+
/**
* quota_send_warning - Send warning to userspace about exceeded quota
* @type: The quota type: USRQQUOTA, GRPQUOTA,...
@@ -78,7 +88,7 @@ void quota_send_warning(struct kqid qid, dev_t dev,
goto attr_err_out;
genlmsg_end(skb, msg_head);
- genlmsg_multicast(skb, 0, quota_genl_family.id, GFP_NOFS);
+ genlmsg_multicast(skb, 0, quota_mcgrp.id, GFP_NOFS);
return;
attr_err_out:
printk(KERN_ERR "VFS: Not enough space to compose quota message!\n");
@@ -92,6 +102,9 @@ static int __init quota_init(void)
if (genl_register_family(&quota_genl_family) != 0)
printk(KERN_ERR
"VFS: Failed to create quota netlink interface.\n");
+ if (genl_register_mc_group(&quota_genl_family, &quota_mcgrp))
+ printk(KERN_ERR
+ "VFS: Failed to register quota mcast group.\n");
return 0;
};
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
index c880a417d8a9..1af72d8228e0 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct genlmsghdr {
*/
#define GENL_ID_GENERATE 0
#define GENL_ID_CTRL NLMSG_MIN_TYPE
+#define GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT (NLMSG_MIN_TYPE + 1)
/**************************************************************************
* Controller
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 353909d46dda..bee91a7527a5 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -69,8 +69,11 @@ static struct list_head family_ht[GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE];
* abuses the API and thinks it can statically use group 1.
* That group will typically conflict with other groups that
* any proper users use.
+ * 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.
*/
-static unsigned long mc_group_start = 0x3;
+static unsigned long mc_group_start = 0x3 | BIT(GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT);
static unsigned long *mc_groups = &mc_group_start;
static unsigned long mc_groups_longs = 1;
@@ -130,7 +133,8 @@ static u16 genl_generate_id(void)
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= GENL_MAX_ID - GENL_MIN_ID; i++) {
- if (!genl_family_find_byid(id_gen_idx))
+ if (id_gen_idx != GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT &&
+ !genl_family_find_byid(id_gen_idx))
return id_gen_idx;
if (++id_gen_idx > GENL_MAX_ID)
id_gen_idx = GENL_MIN_ID;
@@ -169,6 +173,8 @@ int genl_register_mc_group(struct genl_family *family,
id = GENL_ID_CTRL;
else if (strcmp(family->name, "NET_DM") == 0)
id = 1;
+ else if (strcmp(family->name, "VFS_DQUOT") == 0)
+ id = GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT;
else
id = find_first_zero_bit(mc_groups,
mc_groups_longs * BITS_PER_LONG);