linux-kernel - [PATCH] taskstats: fix? sk

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Date:	Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:57:16 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Shailabh Nagar <nagar@...son.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>, Jay Lan <jlan@....com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] taskstats: fix? sk_buff size calculation

Again, I am not sure this patch is correct, it needs an ack...

prepare_reply() adds GENL_HDRLEN to the payload (genlmsg_total_size()),
but then it does genlmsg_put()->nlmsg_put(). This means we forget to
reserve a room for 'struct nlmsghdr', no?

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- STATS/kernel/taskstats.c~2_size	2006-10-29 16:39:10.000000000 +0300
+++ STATS/kernel/taskstats.c	2006-10-29 18:35:40.000000000 +0300
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_inf
 	/*
 	 * If new attributes are added, please revisit this allocation
 	 */
-	skb = nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(size), GFP_KERNEL);
+	size = nlmsg_total_size(genlmsg_total_size(size));
+	skb = nlmsg_new(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!skb)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 

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