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Message-Id: <20100327.171715.232746020.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:17:15 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: jengelh@...ozas.de Cc: schwab@...ux-m68k.org, tony.luck@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Seeing new kernel unaligned access messages in linux-next on ia64 From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:11:13 +0100 (CET) > On Sunday 2010-03-28 00:37, David Miller wrote: >> >>> net: fix unaligned access in IFLA_STATS64 >> >>Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks Jan. >> >>Hey, don't we need some adjustments to if_nlmsg_size()? I don't see >>it accounting for IFLA_STATS64/"struct rtnl_link_stats64" there. > > If I am not mistaken, the answer is "not strictly". But of course it's > nicer if we don't need to realloc just because we were too conservative > in the initial calculation. Right. > net: increase preallocated size of nlmsg to accomodate for IFLA_STATS64 > > When more data is stuffed into an nlmsg than initially projected, an > extra allocation needs to be done. Reserve enough for IFLA_STATS64 so > that this does not to needlessy happen. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> Applied, thanks a lot! -- 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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