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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rtnetlink: Fix message size calculation for link messages
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:47:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112014759.GA8491@canuck.infradead.org> (raw)

nlmsg_total_size() calculates the length of a netlink message
including header and alignment. nla_total_size() calculates the
space an individual attribute consumes which was meant to be used
in this context.

Also, ensure to account for the attribute header for the
IFLA_INFO_XSTATS attribute as implementations of get_xstats_size()
seem to assume that we do so.

The addition of two message headers minus the missing attribute
header resulted in a calculated message size that was larger than
required. Therefore we never risked running out of skb tailroom.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

Index: net-2.6/net/core/rtnetlink.c
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.orig/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ net-2.6/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -347,16 +347,17 @@ static size_t rtnl_link_get_size(const s
 	if (!ops)
 		return 0;
 
-	size = nlmsg_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) + /* IFLA_LINKINFO */
-	       nlmsg_total_size(strlen(ops->kind) + 1);	 /* IFLA_INFO_KIND */
+	size = nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) + /* IFLA_LINKINFO */
+	       nla_total_size(strlen(ops->kind) + 1);  /* IFLA_INFO_KIND */
 
 	if (ops->get_size)
 		/* IFLA_INFO_DATA + nested data */
-		size += nlmsg_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) +
+		size += nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) +
 			ops->get_size(dev);
 
 	if (ops->get_xstats_size)
-		size += ops->get_xstats_size(dev);	/* IFLA_INFO_XSTATS */
+		/* IFLA_INFO_XSTATS */
+		size += nla_total_size(ops->get_xstats_size(dev));
 
 	return size;
 }

             reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12  1:47 Thomas Graf [this message]
2010-11-12  7:43 ` [PATCH] rtnetlink: Fix message size calculation for link messages Patrick McHardy
2010-11-12 18:53   ` David Miller

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