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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:39:40 +0100 From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> Cc: Noriaki TAKAMIYA <takamiya@...ntts.co.jp>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, usagi-core@...ux-ipv6.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [IPV6] fixed the size of the netlink message notified by inet6_rt_notify(). * Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> 2007-01-17 13:33 > [NETLINK]: Don't BUG on undersized allocations > > Currently netlink users BUG when the allocated skb for an event > notification is undersized. While this is certainly a kernel bug, > its not critical and crashing the kernel is too drastic, especially > when considering that these errors have appeared multiple times in > the past and it BUGs even if no listeners are present. > > This patch replaces BUG by WARN_ON and changes the notification > functions to inform potential listeners of undersized allocations > using a unique error code (EMSGSIZE). I perfectly agree, thanks a lot Patrick. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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