[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "net: vlan: fix nlmsg size calculation in vlan_get_size()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Nov 1 21:43:40 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: vlan: fix nlmsg size calculation in vlan_get_size()

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.13.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d2732c18db0399c59c34a8637ac8dc8a0e6dab3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl at pengutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 23:19:58 +0200
Subject: net: vlan: fix nlmsg size calculation in vlan_get_size()

[ Upstream commit c33a39c575068c2ea9bffb22fd6de2df19c74b89 ]

This patch fixes the calculation of the nlmsg size, by adding the missing
nla_total_size().

Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber at trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl at pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
[ kamal: backport to 3.8 (context) ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c b/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
index 708c80e..ebde030 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static size_t vlan_get_size(const struct net_device *dev)
 	struct vlan_dev_priv *vlan = vlan_dev_priv(dev);

 	return nla_total_size(2) +	/* IFLA_VLAN_ID */
-	       sizeof(struct ifla_vlan_flags) + /* IFLA_VLAN_FLAGS */
+	       nla_total_size(sizeof(struct ifla_vlan_flags)) + /* IFLA_VLAN_FLAGS */
 	       vlan_qos_map_size(vlan->nr_ingress_mappings) +
 	       vlan_qos_map_size(vlan->nr_egress_mappings);
 }
--
1.8.1.2





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