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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [stable-patch 1/2] Fix computation of allocated size for netlink
 skb.
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:09:29 +0100
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To: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
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Eric Leblond wrote:
> Size of the netlink skb was wrongly computed because the formula was using
> NLMSG_ALIGN instead of NLMSG_SPACE. NLMSG_ALIGN does not add the room for
> netlink header as NLMSG_SPACE does. This was causing a failure of message
> building in some cases.
> 
> On my test system, all messages for packets in range [8*k+41, 8*k+48] where k
> is an integer were invalid and the corresponding packets were dropped.


Applied.