Subject: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Fix taskstats size calculation (use the new genetlink utility functions)

From: Balbir Singh <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:10:32 +0530

The addition of the CSA patch pushed the size of struct taskstats to 256
bytes. This exposed a problem with prepare_reply(), we were not allocating
space for the netlink and genetlink header. It worked earlier because
alloc_skb() would align the skb to SMP_CACHE_BYTES, which added some additonal
bytes.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <[email-masked]>
---

 kernel/taskstats.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN kernel/taskstats.c~taskstats-fix-msg-size kernel/taskstats.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc6/kernel/taskstats.c~taskstats-fix-msg-size	2006-09-11 11:42:40.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc6-balbir/kernel/taskstats.c	2006-09-11 11:42:55.000000000 +0530
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_inf
 	/*
 	 * If new attributes are added, please revisit this allocation
 	 */
-	skb = nlmsg_new(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	skb = nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(size), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!skb)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
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	Balbir Singh,
	Linux Technology Center,
	IBM Software Labs