* Can netlink_recvmsg not truncate messages unless asked to?
@ 2007-04-13 18:04 David Howells
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From: David Howells @ 2007-04-13 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Would it be feasible to make netlink_recvmsg() _not_ truncate message unless
it is asked to by having MSG_TRUNC passed to it?
Unless netlink data packets are limited to PAGE_SIZE or less, it's entirely
possible that the kernel can be in a situation where it can't guarantee to get
a buffer large enough to receive a packet larger than that.
What I was trying to do was use recvmsg with MSG_PEEK to grab the nlmsghdr,
and then using that to predict the size of the buffer I need. But that
doesn't work because a packet might contain multiple netlink messages.
David
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