From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix•com>
To: "netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel•com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Regression: "rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size" breaks glibc's getifaddrs()
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:36:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F229A5F.4050600@citrix.com> (raw)
Changeset c7ac8679bec9397afe8918f788cbcef88c38da54 (rtnetlink: Compute
and store minimum ifinfo dump size) applied to 3.1 increased the maximum
size of the RTM_GETLINK message response.
glibc's getifaddrs() function uses a page sized (4 KiB) buffer for the
RTM_GETLINK response and returns a failure if the message is truncated.
This buffer is not large enough if there is a network card with many
virtual functions.
What do you recommend to resolve this regression?
David
next reply other threads:[~2012-01-27 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-27 12:36 David Vrabel [this message]
2012-01-27 21:53 ` Regression: "rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size" breaks glibc's getifaddrs() David Miller
2012-01-27 22:26 ` Štefan Gula
2012-01-30 16:50 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-01-30 16:58 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 17:02 ` Rose, Gregory V
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