Re: [NETLINK]: Fix nla_parse_nested_compat() to call nla_parse() directly

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:45:23 +0200

> Thomas Graf wrote:
> > The purpose of nla_parse_nested_compat() is to parse attributes
> > which contain a struct followed by a stream of nested attributes.
> > So far, it called nla_parse_nested() to parse the stream of
> > nested attributes which was wrong, as nla_parse_nested() expects
> > a container attribute as data which holds the attribute stream.
> > It needs to call nla_parse() directly while pointing at the
> > next possible alignment point after the struct in the beginning
> > of the attribute.
> >
> > With this patch, I can no longer reproduce the reported leftover
> > warnings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
> 
> Looks good to me, thanks for fixing this Thomas.

Patch applied, thanks everyone.