From: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 4054ab64e29bb05b3dfe758fff3c38a74ba753bb upstream.
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.
Fixes: 9e06d3f9f6b1 ("per task delay accounting taskstats interface: documentation fix")
Reported-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327173111.63922-1-dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ 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);
