[PATCH 1/4] Properly account for alignment difference in nlmsg_len

Chris Wright chrisw at osdl.org
Wed May 11 08:01:06 UTC 2005


Properly account for alignment difference in nlmsg_len.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw at osdl.org>
---

 kernel/audit.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

kernel/audit.c: ddb69a4582037864797d287a4a1eadc9dfe49ac3
--- k/kernel/audit.c
+++ l/kernel/audit.c
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ static inline int audit_log_drain(struct
 
 		if (audit_pid) {
 			struct nlmsghdr *nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data;
-			nlh->nlmsg_len = skb->len - sizeof(*nlh);
+			nlh->nlmsg_len = skb->len - NLMSG_SPACE(0);
 			skb_get(skb); /* because netlink_* frees */
 			retval = netlink_unicast(audit_sock, skb, audit_pid,
 						 MSG_DONTWAIT);




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