This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtnl: fix msg size calculation in if_nlmsg_size() to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rtnl-fix-msg-size-calculation-in-if_nlmsg_size.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Apr 16 09:15:18 PDT 2016 From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 18:10:31 +0200 Subject: rtnl: fix msg size calculation in if_nlmsg_size() From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c57c7a95da842807b475b823ed2e5435c42cb3b0 ] Size of the attribute IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME was missing. Fixes: db24a9044ee1 ("net: add support for phys_port_name") CC: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -905,6 +905,7 @@ static noinline size_t if_nlmsg_size(con + rtnl_link_get_af_size(dev, ext_filter_mask) /* IFLA_AF_SPEC */ + nla_total_size(MAX_PHYS_ITEM_ID_LEN) /* IFLA_PHYS_PORT_ID */ + nla_total_size(MAX_PHYS_ITEM_ID_LEN) /* IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID */ + + nla_total_size(IFNAMSIZ) /* IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME */ + nla_total_size(1); /* IFLA_PROTO_DOWN */ } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/ip6_tunnel-set-rtnl_link_ops-before-calling-register_netdevice.patch queue-4.5/rtnl-fix-msg-size-calculation-in-if_nlmsg_size.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html