The errno value from getgrnam_r here is ERANGE which is documented as
"Insufficient buffer space supplied".
When I call get getgrnam_r with a large enough buffer everything
works. Indicating that the problem is that sysconf is returning
a value too small.
A quick google search tells me that sysconf(_S_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX)
is documented as:
> sysconf(_S_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX) returns either -1 or a good
> suggested starting value for buflen. It does not return the
> worst case possible for buflen.
In my case I have a group with about 50 users in /etc/group
and that is what triggered the problem in udev and caused
all of the udevs group lookups to fail.
The following patch which dynamically allocates the group member buffer
should fix this problem.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>