netdev - [PATCH 3/7 net-2.6.26] [TIPC]: Ignore message padding when receiving stream data

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Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:16:30 -0400
From:	Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, allan.stephens@...driver.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/7 net-2.6.26] [TIPC]: Ignore message padding when receiving stream data

This patch ensures that padding bytes appearing at the end of
an incoming TIPC message are not returned as valid stream data.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>
---
 net/tipc/socket.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c
index c1a199c..ead22e5 100644
--- a/net/tipc/socket.c
+++ b/net/tipc/socket.c
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ restart:
 
 	if (!err) {
 		buf_crs = (unsigned char *)(TIPC_SKB_CB(buf)->handle);
-		sz = skb_tail_pointer(buf) - buf_crs;
+		sz = (unsigned char *)msg + msg_size(msg) - buf_crs;
 
 		needed = (buf_len - sz_copied);
 		sz_to_copy = (sz <= needed) ? sz : needed;
-- 
1.5.3.2

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