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Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:45:23 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> CC: davem@...emloft.net, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Fix nla_parse_nested_compat() to call nla_parse() directly Thomas Graf wrote: > The purpose of nla_parse_nested_compat() is to parse attributes > which contain a struct followed by a stream of nested attributes. > So far, it called nla_parse_nested() to parse the stream of > nested attributes which was wrong, as nla_parse_nested() expects > a container attribute as data which holds the attribute stream. > It needs to call nla_parse() directly while pointing at the > next possible alignment point after the struct in the beginning > of the attribute. > > With this patch, I can no longer reproduce the reported leftover > warnings. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> Looks good to me, thanks for fixing this Thomas. -- 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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