[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "net: drop_monitor: fix the value of maxattr" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    net: drop_monitor: fix the value of maxattr

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 3.8.13.16.

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 73fcecaebb2144725896ad5ba60de334cd2edd70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 09:36:56 -0500
Subject: net: drop_monitor: fix the value of maxattr

[ Upstream commit d323e92cc3f4edd943610557c9ea1bb4bb5056e8 ]

maxattr in genl_family should be used to save the max attribute
type, but not the max command type. Drop monitor doesn't support
any attributes, so we should leave it as zero.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/core/drop_monitor.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/drop_monitor.c b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
index d23b668..a974dfe 100644
--- a/net/core/drop_monitor.c
+++ b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ static struct genl_family net_drop_monitor_family = {
 	.hdrsize        = 0,
 	.name           = "NET_DM",
 	.version        = 2,
-	.maxattr        = NET_DM_CMD_MAX,
 };

 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct per_cpu_dm_data, dm_cpu_data);
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1.8.3.2