The patch titled
Subject: tools/accounting/getdelays.c: fix netlink attribute length
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
getdelays-fix-netlink-attribute-length.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/getdelays-fix-netlink-attribute-length.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/getdelays-fix-netlink-attribute-length.patch
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From: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: tools/accounting/getdelays.c: fix netlink attribute length
A recent change to the netlink code: 6e237d099fac ("netlink: Relax attr
validation for fixed length types") logs a warning when programs send
messages with invalid attributes (e.g., wrong length for a u32). Yafang
reported this error message for tools/accounting/getdelays.c.
send_cmd() is wrongly adding 1 to the attribute length. As noted in
include/uapi/linux/netlink.h nla_len should be NLA_HDRLEN + payload
length, so drop the +1.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327173111.63922-1-dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 9e06d3f9f6b1 ("per task delay accounting taskstats interface: documentation fix")
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/accounting/getdelays.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/accounting/getdelays.c~getdelays-fix-netlink-attribute-length
+++ a/tools/accounting/getdelays.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static int send_cmd(int sd, __u16 nlmsg_
msg.g.version = 0x1;
na = (struct nlattr *) GENLMSG_DATA(&msg);
na->nla_type = nla_type;
- na->nla_len = nla_len + 1 + NLA_HDRLEN;
+ na->nla_len = nla_len + NLA_HDRLEN;
memcpy(NLA_DATA(na), nla_data, nla_len);
msg.n.nlmsg_len += NLMSG_ALIGN(na->nla_len);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx are
getdelays-fix-netlink-attribute-length.patch
