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[PATCH] taskstats: fix sk_buff size calculation

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prepare_reply() adds GENL_HDRLEN to the payload (genlmsg_total_size()),
but then it does genlmsg_put()->nlmsg_put().  This means we forget to
reserve a room for 'struct nlmsghdr'.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2006-10-29 18:57:16 +03:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d46a3d0d07
commit 3d8334def5
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info *info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff **skbp,
/*
* If new attributes are added, please revisit this allocation
*/
skb = nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(size), GFP_KERNEL);
size = nlmsg_total_size(genlmsg_total_size(size));
skb = nlmsg_new(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;