From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.0.y 0/3] rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:04:40 -0800 Message-ID: <20130114210440.GB24751@kroah.com> References: <1357259449.2685.60.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , Greg Rose , stable@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com To: Ben Hutchings Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1357259449.2685.60.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 12:30:49AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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. All now applied, thanks. greg k-h