>-Original Message-
>From: David Miller [mailto:da...@davemloft.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 7:24 PM
>To: Arad, Ronen
>Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] netlink: Rightsize IFLA_AF_SPEC size
>calculation
>
>From: Ronen Arad
From: Ronen Arad
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:51:28 -0700
> @@ -900,7 +901,7 @@ static noinline size_t if_nlmsg_size(const struct
> net_device *dev,
> + rtnl_vfinfo_size(dev, ext_filter_mask) /* IFLA_VFINFO_LIST */
> + rtnl_port_size(dev, ext_filter_mask) /* IFLA_VF_PORTS
This is a v2 of a 4-parts patch with same subject.
Giving up on backward compatibility allows for much simplified single patch.
if_nlmsg_size() overestimates the minimum allocation size of netlink
dump request (when called from rtnl_calcit()) or the size of the
message (when called from rtnl_getli
