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Commit d83787c2 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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rtnetlink: fix if_nlmsg_stats_size() under estimation

[ Upstream commit d3436799 ]

rtnl_fill_statsinfo() is filling skb with one mandatory if_stats_msg structure.

nlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, type, sizeof(struct if_stats_msg), flags);

But if_nlmsg_stats_size() never considered the needed storage.

This bug did not show up because alloc_skb(X) allocates skb with
extra tailroom, because of added alignments. This could very well
be changed in the future to have deterministic behavior.

Fixes: 10c9ead9

 ("rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRoopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 0311d977
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