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Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] netlink: bug fix: don't overrun skbs on
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 03:42:51 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 00:15:46 -0700

> From: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>
> 
> Noticed by Patrick McHardy: was continuing to fill skb after a
> nla_put_failure, ignoring the size calculated by upper layer.  Now,
> return -EMSGSIZE on any overruns, but also allow netdev to
> fail ndo_get_vf_port with error other than -EMSGSIZE, thus unwinding
> nest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>

Applied.