netdev - Re: [patch] netlink.7: srcfix Change buffer size in example code about reading netlink message.

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Date:   Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:40:09 +0200
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com>, dwilder <dwilder@...ibm.com>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] netlink.7: srcfix Change buffer size in example code
 about reading netlink message.

On 11/14/2016 11:36 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
>> Lets change the example so others don't propagate the problem further.
>>
>> Signed-off-by David Wilder <dwilder@...ibm.com>
>>
>> --- man7/netlink.7.orig 2016-11-14 13:30:36.522101156 -0800
>> +++ man7/netlink.7      2016-11-14 13:30:51.002086354 -0800
>> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@
>>  .in +4n
>>  .nf
>>  int len;
>> -char buf[4096];
>> +char buf[8192];
> 
> Since there doesn't seem to be a define one could use in the user space 
> linux/netlink.h (?), but there are comments in the example code in the 
> manpage, how about also including a brief comment to the effect that 
> using 8192 bytes will avoid message truncation problems on platforms 
> with a large PAGE_SIZE?
> 
> /* avoid msg truncation on > 4096 byte PAGE_SIZE platforms */
> 
> or something like that.

Thanks for the suggestion, Rick. Done!

Cheers,

Michael


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