From: Christophe Ricard <christophe.ricard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:31:31 +0200
> Since commit c05cdb1b864f ("netlink: allow large data transfers from
> user-space"), the kernel may fail to allocate the necessary room for the
> acknowledgment message back to userspace. This patch introduces a new
> socket option that trims off the payload of the original netlink message.
>
> The netlink message header is still included, so the user can guess from
> the sequence number what is the message that has triggered the
> acknowledgment.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Please do not CC: stable for networking changes, that is not how we handle
-stable submissions.
Instead, please just explicitly ask me to queue it up for -stable when
you make a bonafide non-RFC submission of a change.
Thanks.
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