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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 iproute2 2/2] lib/libnetlink: update rtnl_talk to
 support malloc buff at run time
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:45:56 +0200
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:33:46 +0800
Hangbin Liu <haliu@redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
> 
> This is an update for 460c03f3f3cc ("iplink: double the buffer size also in
> iplink_get()"). After update, we will not need to double the buffer size
> every time when VFs number increased.
> 
> With call like rtnl_talk(&rth, &req.n, NULL, 0), we can simply remove the
> length parameter.
> 
> With call like rtnl_talk(&rth, nlh, nlh, sizeof(req), I add a new variable
> answer to avoid overwrite data in nlh, because it may has more info after
> nlh. also this will avoid nlh buffer not enough issue.
> 
> We need to free answer after using.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

This does not apply cleanly to net-next branch

Applying: lib/libnetlink: update rtnl_talk to support malloc buff at run time
error: patch failed: ip/ipl2tp.c:185
error: ip/ipl2tp.c: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: ip/iplink.c:1023
error: ip/iplink.c: patch does not apply
Patch failed at 0002 lib/libnetlink: update rtnl_talk to support malloc buff at run time