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genetlink: fix genl_bind() invoking bind() after -EPERM
Per family bind/unbind callbacks were introduced to allow families to track multicast group consumer presence, e.g. to start or stop producing events depending on listeners. However, in genl_bind() the bind() callback was invoked even if capability checks failed and ret was set to -EPERM. This means that callbacks could run on behalf of unauthorized callers while the syscall still returned failure to user space. Fix this by only invoking bind() after "if (ret) break;" check i.e. after permission checks have succeeded. Fixes: 3de21a8 ("genetlink: Add per family bind/unbind callbacks") Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250905135731.3026965-1-alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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@@ -1836,6 +1836,9 @@ static int genl_bind(struct net *net, int group)
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!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
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ret = -EPERM;
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if (ret)
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break;
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if (family->bind)
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family->bind(i);
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