On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 13:09 +0100, Michal Kubecek wrote: > According to the description, first argument of genlmsg_nlhdr() points to > what genlmsg_put() returns, i.e. beginning of user header. Therefore we > should only subtract size of genetlink header and netlink message header, > not user header. > > This also means we don't need to pass the pointer to genetlink family and > the same is true for genl_dump_check_consistent() which is the only caller > of genlmsg_nlhdr(). (Note that at the moment, these functions are only > used for families which do not have user header so that they are not > affected.) > > Fixes: 670dc2833d14 ("netlink: advertise incomplete dumps") > Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz>
Looks sensible, though I don't think it's really needed in net since it really has no effect - as you note, family->hdrsize is 0 for all the families calling this right now. Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> johannes