From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:09:26 +0100
> From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> > > The pmcraid driver 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 it use the correct API, but since this may already be used > as-is by userspace, reserve a family ID for this code and also > reserve that group ID to not break userspace assumptions. > > My previous patch broke event delivery in the driver as I missed > that it wasn't using the right API and forgot to update it later > in my series. > > While changing this, I noticed that the genetlink code could use > the static group ID instead of a strcmp(), so also do that for > the VFS_DQUOT family. > > Cc: Anil Ravindranath <[email protected]> > Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Applied, thanks Johannes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
