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    rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation · 115c9b81
    Greg Rose authored
    
    
    Implement a new netlink attribute type IFLA_EXT_MASK.  The mask
    is a 32 bit value that can be used to indicate to the kernel that
    certain extended ifinfo values are requested by the user application.
    At this time the only mask value defined is RTEXT_FILTER_VF to
    indicate that the user wants the ifinfo dump to send information
    about the VFs belonging to the interface.
    
    This patch fixes a bug in which certain applications do not have
    large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned
    by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions.
    Those applications will not send the new netlink attribute with
    the interface info dump request netlink messages so they will
    not get unexpectedly large request buffers returned by the kernel.
    
    Modifies the rtnl_calcit function to traverse the list of net
    devices and compute the minimum buffer size that can hold the
    info dumps of all matching devices based upon the filter passed
    in via the new netlink attribute filter mask.  If no filter
    mask is sent then the buffer allocation defaults to NLMSG_GOODSIZE.
    
    With this change it is possible to add yet to be defined netlink
    attributes to the dump request which should make it fairly extensible
    in the future.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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