[PATCH] taskstats: fix sk_buff size calculation
prepare_reply() adds GENL_HDRLEN to the payload (genlmsg_total_size()),
but then it does genlmsg_put()->nlmsg_put(). This means we forget to
reserve a room for 'struct nlmsghdr'.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index f3c3e9d..2039585 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@
/*
* If new attributes are added, please revisit this allocation
*/
- skb = nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(size), GFP_KERNEL);
+ size = nlmsg_total_size(genlmsg_total_size(size));
+ skb = nlmsg_new(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;