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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] netfilter: nf_log: account for size of NLMSG_DONE
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:30:27 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:36:06AM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> We currently neither account for the nlattr size, nor do we consider
> the size of the trailing NLMSG_DONE when allocating nlmsg skb.
> 
> This can result in nflog to stop working, as __nfulnl_send() re-tries
> sending forever if it failed to append NLMSG_DONE (which will never
> work if buffer is not large enough).

Applied, thanks.