This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drop_monitor: consider inserted data in genlmsg_end 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: drop_monitor-consider-inserted-data-in-genlmsg_end.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 Thu Jan 12 21:36:14 CET 2017 From: Reiter Wolfgang <wr0112358@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 01:39:10 +0100 Subject: drop_monitor: consider inserted data in genlmsg_end From: Reiter Wolfgang <wr0112358@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3b48ab2248e61408910e792fe84d6ec466084c1a ] Final nlmsg_len field update must reflect inserted net_dm_drop_point data. This patch depends on previous patch: "drop_monitor: add missing call to genlmsg_end" Signed-off-by: Reiter Wolfgang <wr0112358@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/drop_monitor.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/drop_monitor.c +++ b/net/core/drop_monitor.c @@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *reset_per_cpu_dat } msg = nla_data(nla); memset(msg, 0, al); - genlmsg_end(skb, msg_header); goto out; err: @@ -117,6 +116,13 @@ out: swap(data->skb, skb); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags); + if (skb) { + struct nlmsghdr *nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data; + struct genlmsghdr *gnlh = (struct genlmsghdr *)nlmsg_data(nlh); + + genlmsg_end(skb, genlmsg_data(gnlh)); + } + return skb; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wr0112358@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/drop_monitor-add-missing-call-to-genlmsg_end.patch queue-4.4/drop_monitor-consider-inserted-data-in-genlmsg_end.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