linux-stable/net
Arad, Ronen db65a3aaf2 netlink: Trim skb to alloc size to avoid MSG_TRUNC
netlink_dump() allocates skb based on the calculated min_dump_alloc or
a per socket max_recvmsg_len.
min_alloc_size is maximum space required for any single netdev
attributes as calculated by rtnl_calcit().
max_recvmsg_len tracks the user provided buffer to netlink_recvmsg.
It is capped at 16KiB.
The intention is to avoid small allocations and to minimize the number
of calls required to obtain dump information for all net devices.

netlink_dump packs as many small messages as could fit within an skb
that was sized for the largest single netdev information. The actual
space available within an skb is larger than what is requested. It could
be much larger and up to near 2x with align to next power of 2 approach.

Allowing netlink_dump to use all the space available within the
allocated skb increases the buffer size a user has to provide to avoid
truncaion (i.e. MSG_TRUNG flag set).

It was observed that with many VLANs configured on at least one netdev,
a larger buffer of near 64KiB was necessary to avoid "Message truncated"
error in "ip link" or "bridge [-c[ompressvlans]] vlan show" when
min_alloc_size was only little over 32KiB.

This patch trims skb to allocated size in order to allow the user to
avoid truncation with more reasonable buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Ronen Arad <ronen.arad@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-18 19:34:12 -07:00
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6lowpan 6lowpan: move module_init into core functionality 2015-08-11 22:05:36 +02:00
9p net/9p: Remove ib_get_dma_mr calls 2015-08-30 18:12:36 -04:00
802
8021q net: 8021q: convert to using IFF_NO_QUEUE 2015-08-18 11:55:06 -07:00
appletalk
atm atm: deal with setting entry before mkip was called 2015-09-17 22:13:32 -07:00
ax25 NET: AX.25: Stop heartbeat timer on disconnect. 2015-07-15 15:59:58 -07:00
batman-adv batman-adv: turn batadv_neigh_node_get() into local function 2015-08-27 20:15:34 +02:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Delay check for conn->smp in smp_conn_security() 2015-09-17 12:28:27 +02:00
bridge bridge: fix igmpv3 / mldv2 report parsing 2015-09-11 15:08:20 -07:00
caif net: caif: convert to using IFF_NO_QUEUE 2015-08-18 11:55:07 -07:00
can can: replace timestamp as unique skb attribute 2015-07-12 21:13:22 +02:00
ceph libceph: don't access invalid memory in keepalive2 path 2015-09-17 20:14:15 +03:00
core ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings 2015-10-14 19:00:20 -07:00
dcb
dccp tcp/dccp: fix timewait races in timer handling 2015-09-21 16:32:29 -07:00
decnet net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule_pref 2015-09-09 14:19:50 -07:00
dns_resolver
dsa net: dsa: exit probe if no switch were found 2015-10-07 04:56:11 -07:00
ethernet flow_dissector: Add flags argument to skb_flow_dissector functions 2015-09-01 15:06:22 -07:00
hsr net: hsr: convert to using IFF_NO_QUEUE 2015-08-18 11:55:07 -07:00
ieee802154 Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next 2015-08-29 13:15:03 -07:00
ipv4 ipv4: fix reply_dst leakage on arp reply 2015-10-05 04:05:15 -07:00
ipv6 ipv6: Initialize rt6_info properly in ip6_blackhole_route() 2015-10-16 00:39:16 -07:00
ipx
irda
iucv
key net: Fix RCU splat in af_key 2015-08-24 14:48:10 -07:00
l2tp l2tp: protect tunnel->del_work by ref_count 2015-09-28 22:39:10 -07:00
lapb
llc tcp: fix recv with flags MSG_WAITALL | MSG_PEEK 2015-07-27 01:06:53 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: Fix hwflags debugfs file format 2015-10-13 10:30:56 +02:00
mac802154 ieee802154: add ack request default handling 2015-08-10 20:43:06 +02:00
mpls mpls: fix mpls_net_init memory leak 2015-08-31 12:45:09 -07:00
netfilter netfilter: nf_log: wait for rcu grace after logger unregistration 2015-09-17 13:37:31 +02:00
netlabel
netlink netlink: Trim skb to alloc size to avoid MSG_TRUNC 2015-10-18 19:34:12 -07:00
netrom netfilter: Remove spurios included of netfilter.h 2015-06-18 21:14:32 +02:00
nfc nfc: netlink: Add capability to reply to vendor_cmd with data 2015-08-20 22:00:11 +02:00
openvswitch openvswitch: Change CT_ATTR_FLAGS to CT_ATTR_COMMIT 2015-10-07 05:03:06 -07:00
packet Fix AF_PACKET ABI breakage in 4.2 2015-09-23 14:33:55 -07:00
phonet
rds Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-09-10 13:53:15 -07:00
rfkill rfkill: Copy "all" global state to other types 2015-09-04 14:26:56 +02:00
rose Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-06-24 02:58:51 -07:00
rxrpc
sched sch_hhf: fix return value of hhf_drop() 2015-10-11 04:49:33 -07:00
sctp net: sctp: Don't use 64 kilobyte lookup table for four elements 2015-09-28 22:52:21 -07:00
sunrpc Changes for 4.3-rc4 2015-10-01 16:38:52 -04:00
switchdev switchdev: check if the vlan id is in the proper vlan range 2015-10-13 04:43:24 -07:00
tipc tipc: move fragment importance field to new header position 2015-10-14 19:10:08 -07:00
unix net/unix: fix logic about sk_peek_offset 2015-10-05 06:33:09 -07:00
vmw_vsock
wimax net:wimax: Fix doucble word "the the" in networking.xml 2015-08-09 22:43:52 -07:00
wireless cfg80211: regulatory: restore proper user alpha2 2015-09-04 14:29:25 +02:00
x25
xfrm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-09-03 08:08:17 -07:00
compat.c
Kconfig lwtunnel: infrastructure for handling light weight tunnels like mpls 2015-07-21 10:39:03 -07:00
Makefile
socket.c
sysctl_net.c