Re: [PATCH] RDMA/core: Fix for parsing netlink string attribute

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On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 04:36:33PM -0500, Tatyana Nikolova wrote:
> The string iwpm_ulib_name is recorded in a nlmsg as a netlink attribute.
> Without this fix parsing of the nlmsg by the userspace port mapper service fails
> because of unknown attribute length, causing the port mapper service not to
> register the client, which has sent the nlmsg.

Reviewed-By: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This actually will copy some kernel memory to userspace. I think the
overflow is in .text, so probably not a security issue..

Jason
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