Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:26:02 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
        Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch] fix nla_policy_len to actually _iterate_ over
 the policy
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:35:59PM +0100, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> Currently nla_policy_len always returns n * NLA_HDRLEN:
> It loops, but does not advance it's iterator.
> NLA_UNSPEC == 0 does not contain a .len in any policy.
> 
> Trivially fixed by adding p++.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
> 
> diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c

Please read how to properly get patches into the stable kernel tree in
the file Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt (hint, randomly cc:ing
stable@kernel.org is NOT how to do it...)

thanks,

greg k-h
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