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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>2010-11-11 15:47:59 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-11-12 10:53:09 -0800
commit369cf77a6a3e41b1110506ddf43d45804103bfde (patch)
tree6bd88b669c8c68ac4d9008e00566ca15e43a6ff4
parent8877870f8a8127b653f8c9a55c6b4de9f96f639b (diff)
rtnetlink: Fix message size calculation for link messages
nlmsg_total_size() calculates the length of a netlink message including header and alignment. nla_total_size() calculates the space an individual attribute consumes which was meant to be used in this context. Also, ensure to account for the attribute header for the IFLA_INFO_XSTATS attribute as implementations of get_xstats_size() seem to assume that we do so. The addition of two message headers minus the missing attribute header resulted in a calculated message size that was larger than required. Therefore we never risked running out of skb tailroom. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 8121268ddbdd..841c287ef40a 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -347,16 +347,17 @@ static size_t rtnl_link_get_size(const struct net_device *dev)
if (!ops)
return 0;
- size = nlmsg_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) + /* IFLA_LINKINFO */
- nlmsg_total_size(strlen(ops->kind) + 1); /* IFLA_INFO_KIND */
+ size = nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) + /* IFLA_LINKINFO */
+ nla_total_size(strlen(ops->kind) + 1); /* IFLA_INFO_KIND */
if (ops->get_size)
/* IFLA_INFO_DATA + nested data */
- size += nlmsg_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) +
+ size += nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nlattr)) +
ops->get_size(dev);
if (ops->get_xstats_size)
- size += ops->get_xstats_size(dev); /* IFLA_INFO_XSTATS */
+ /* IFLA_INFO_XSTATS */
+ size += nla_total_size(ops->get_xstats_size(dev));
return size;
}