netdev - Re: Problem with patch "make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg

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Message-Id: <01A82AB9-6ABD-4AD0-9CBC-628091569DB0@holtmann.org>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:10:46 -0800
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
Cc:	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
Subject: Re: Problem with patch "make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void"

Hi Scott,

> This patch needs to be reverted ASAP.  git bisect landed me here also;
> my processes are getting the OOM msgs.  What testing was done?
> 
> Seems someone does care that nlmsg_end() returns skb->len.

I still wonder how this affects userspace. I have not figured that out. Something goes wrong pretty badly somewhere.

Have you tried the small diff with the two locations that were problematic for me?

Regards

Marcel

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