netdev - [INET_DIAG]: Fix oops in netlink_rcv

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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:50:57 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org,
	Athanasius <link@...gy.org>
Subject: [INET_DIAG]: Fix oops in netlink_rcv_skb

Fix the oidentd oops reported by Athanasius <link@...gy.org> in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8961

The oops is a 2.6.22 regression and triggerable by normal users.
The patch applies cleanly to current -git and stable-2.6.22.


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