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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/18] netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups
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From: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:31:32 +0100

> Make ABI more strict about subscribing to group > ngroups.
> Code doesn't check for that and it looks bogus.
> (one can subscribe to non-existing group)
> Still, it's possible to bind() to all possible groups with (-1)
>
> 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
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>

This really has nothing to do with adding a compat layer for xfrm,
and is a bug fix that should be submitted separately in it's own
right.

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