netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: include struct nhmsg size in nh nlmsg size

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:54:58 +0100 (CET)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sworley@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com,
        sharpd@...ulusnetworks.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: include struct nhmsg size in nh nlmsg size

From: Stephen Worley <sworley@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:53:27 -0500

> Include the size of struct nhmsg size when calculating
> how much of a payload to allocate in a new netlink nexthop
> notification message.
> 
> Without this, we will fail to fill the skbuff at certain nexthop
> group sizes.
> 
> You can reproduce the failure with the following iproute2 commands:
 ...
> Fixes: 430a049190de ("nexthop: Add support for nexthop groups")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Worley <sworley@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.