linux-kernel - Re: [AUDIT]: Increase skb->truesize in audit

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:47:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jmorris@...ei.org
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [AUDIT]: Increase skb->truesize in audit_expand

From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:13:03 +1100 (EST)

> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > [AUDIT]: Increase skb->truesize in audit_expand
> > 
> > The recent UDP patch exposed this bug in the audit code.  It
> > was calling pskb_expand_head without increasing skb->truesize.
> > The caller of pskb_expand_head needs to do so because that function
> > is designed to be called in places where truesize is already fixed
> > and therefore it doesn't update its value.
> > 
> > Because the audit system is using it in a place where the truesize
> > has not yet been fixed, it needs to update its value manually.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> 
> 
> (Candidate for stable ?)

Applied, and yes I'll queue this up for -stable.
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