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Patch "drop_monitor: consider inserted data in genlmsg_end" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

drop_monitor: consider inserted data in genlmsg_end

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
drop_monitor-consider-inserted-data-in-genlmsg_end.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From foo@baz Thu Jan 12 21:37:26 CET 2017

From: Reiter Wolfgang <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 01:39:10 +0100
Subject: drop_monitor: consider inserted data in genlmsg_end

From: Reiter Wolfgang <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 3b48ab2248e61408910e792fe84d6ec466084c1a ]

Final nlmsg_len field update must reflect inserted net_dm_drop_point data.

This patch depends on previous patch:
"drop_monitor: add missing call to genlmsg_end"

---
 net/core/drop_monitor.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
net/core/drop_monitor.c +7 -1
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *reset_per_cpu_dat
 	}
 	msg = nla_data(nla);
 	memset(msg, 0, al);
-	genlmsg_end(skb, msg_header);
 	goto out;
 
 err:
@@ -117,6 +116,13 @@ out:
 	swap(data->skb, skb);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags);
 
+	if (skb) {
+		struct nlmsghdr *nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data;
+		struct genlmsghdr *gnlh = (struct genlmsghdr *)nlmsg_data(nlh);
+
+		genlmsg_end(skb, genlmsg_data(gnlh));
+	}
+
 	return skb;
 }
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/drop_monitor-add-missing-call-to-genlmsg_end.patch queue-4.9/drop_monitor-consider-inserted-data-in-genlmsg_end.patch