From 3d8334def5cf831d2ed438aae021696a2faa4ddd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:57:16 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] taskstats: fix sk_buff size calculation

prepare_reply() adds GENL_HDRLEN to the payload (genlmsg_total_size()),
but then it does genlmsg_put()->nlmsg_put().  This means we forget to
reserve a room for 'struct nlmsghdr'.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 kernel/taskstats.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'kernel/taskstats.c')

diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index f3c3e9d43d2..2039585ec5e 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info *info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff **skbp,
 	/*
 	 * If new attributes are added, please revisit this allocation
 	 */
-	skb = nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(size), GFP_KERNEL);
+	size = nlmsg_total_size(genlmsg_total_size(size));
+	skb = nlmsg_new(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!skb)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
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