From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jbenc@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ronye@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rtnetlink: fix VF info size
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:34:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140808.103434.1754779724613937273.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8491096ac8f0e7cc7745411c0af87fb5a146d44e.1407509058.git.jbenc@redhat.com>
From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 16:44:32 +0200
> Commit 1d8faf48c74b8 ("net/core: Add VF link state control") added new
> attribute to IFLA_VF_INFO group in rtnl_fill_ifinfo but did not adjust size
> of the allocated memory in if_nlmsg_size/rtnl_vfinfo_size. As the result, we
> may trigger warnings in rtnl_getlink and similar functions when many VF
> links are enabled, as the information does not fit into the allocated skb.
>
> Fixes: 1d8faf48c74b8 ("net/core: Add VF link state control")
> Reported-by: Yulong Pei <ypei@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
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2014-08-08 14:44 [PATCH net] rtnetlink: fix VF info size Jiri Benc
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