[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "bridge: fix netlink max attr size" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    bridge: fix netlink max attr size

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt8.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 0c72a522e4abddf7b3423a110fcf10604459c601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:29:35 -0700
Subject: bridge: fix netlink max attr size

commit eb4cb85180cd3baee4a01fd32e296fc28c2cffc1 upstream.

.maxtype should match .policy.  Probably just been getting lucky here
because IFLA_BRPORT_MAX > IFLA_BR_MAX.

Fixes: 13323516 ("bridge: implement rtnl_link_ops->changelink")
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index dca5049..020bc23 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops __read_mostly = {
 	.kind			= "bridge",
 	.priv_size		= sizeof(struct net_bridge),
 	.setup			= br_dev_setup,
-	.maxtype		= IFLA_BRPORT_MAX,
+	.maxtype		= IFLA_BR_MAX,
 	.policy			= br_policy,
 	.validate		= br_validate,
 	.newlink		= br_dev_newlink,
--
1.9.1