netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] libnetlink: Use NLMSG_LENGTH to set nlmsg

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Date:   Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:09:17 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] libnetlink: Use NLMSG_LENGTH to set
 nlmsg_len

On 10/4/18 3:37 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> 
> Some of the inner headers are not 4-byte aligned, so use
> NLMSG_LENGTH instead of sizeof(req) to set nlmsg_len.
> 

this patch is wrong; headers are supposed to be 4-bytes aligned.