Patch "rtnl: fix msg size calculation in if_nlmsg_size()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

rtnl: fix msg size calculation in if_nlmsg_size()

to the 4.4-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:
rtnl-fix-msg-size-calculation-in-if_nlmsg_size.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 18:10:31 +0200
Subject: rtnl: fix msg size calculation in if_nlmsg_size()

From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit c57c7a95da842807b475b823ed2e5435c42cb3b0 ]

Size of the attribute IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME was missing.

---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -905,6 +905,7 @@ static noinline size_t if_nlmsg_size(con
 	       + rtnl_link_get_af_size(dev, ext_filter_mask) /* IFLA_AF_SPEC */
 	       + nla_total_size(MAX_PHYS_ITEM_ID_LEN) /* IFLA_PHYS_PORT_ID */
 	       + nla_total_size(MAX_PHYS_ITEM_ID_LEN) /* IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID */
+	       + nla_total_size(IFNAMSIZ) /* IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME */
 	       + nla_total_size(1); /* IFLA_PROTO_DOWN */
 
 }

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

queue-4.4/ip6_tunnel-set-rtnl_link_ops-before-calling-register_netdevice.patch queue-4.4/rtnl-fix-msg-size-calculation-in-if_nlmsg_size.patch