From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.0.y 0/3] rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:36:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20130103.163614.162474717714949991.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1357259449.2685.60.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, gregory.v.rose@intel.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com To: bhutchings@solarflare.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:58142 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754497Ab3ADAgQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2013 19:36:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1357259449.2685.60.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 00:30:49 +0000 > These patches fix the problem that interface information including many > VFs is too large for the 4K buffers used by glibc and other clients. > This breaks many network services. > > The first of these ('rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump > size') went into 3.1 and has also been included in SLE11 SP2. The > second and third were acked by David Miller and included in 3.2.34. > > I've applied and briefly tested these changes in conjunction with a > backport of the sfc driver to SLE11 SP3. I'm fine with these going into 3.0.x-stable, thanks for doing the backport.