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 4.4-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-4.4 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 10:02:53 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-4.4/ip6_tunnel-set-rtnl_link_ops-before-calling-register_netdevice.patch
queue-4.4/rtnl-fix-msg-size-calculation-in-if_nlmsg_size.patch
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