Re: [PATCH 2/6] netlink: have netlink per-protocol bind function return an error code.

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:34:06 -0400

> @@ -1449,6 +1453,26 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
>  	if (!nladdr->nl_groups && (nlk->groups == NULL || !(u32)nlk->groups[0]))
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	if (nlk->netlink_bind && nladdr->nl_groups) {
> +		int i;
> +
> +		for (i = 0; i < nlk->ngroups; i++) {
> +			int undo;
> +
> +			if (!test_bit(i, (long unsigned int *)&nladdr->nl_groups))
> +				continue;
> +			err = nlk->netlink_bind(i);
> +			if (!err)
> +				continue;
> +			if (!nlk->portid)
> +				netlink_remove(sk);
> +			for (undo = 0; undo < i; undo++)
> +				if (nlk->netlink_unbind)
> +					nlk->netlink_unbind(undo);
> +			return err;
> +		}
> +	}
> +

It took me a while to figure out why you need to do the netlink_remove() in
the error path.

I think it's really asking for trouble to allow the socket to have temporary
visibility if we end up signalling an error.

It seems safest if we only do the autobind/insert once we are absolutely
certain that the bind() will fully succeed.  This means that you have to
do this bind validation loop before autobind/insert.

Please make this change and resubmit this series, thanks.