[PATCH] Fix computation of SKB size for quota messages

From: Jan Kara
Date: Tue Dec 18 2007 - 13:08:54 EST


Hello,

attached patch fixes computation of buffer size needed for quota netlink
messages. Otherwise we were getting errors on some architectures. Andrew,
please apply. Thanks.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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Fix computation of size of skb needed for quota message. We should use
netlink provided functions and not just an ad-hoc number. Also don't
print the return value from nla_put_foo() as it is always -1.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/dquot.c b/fs/dquot.c
index 686ab63..cee7c6f 100644
--- a/fs/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/dquot.c
@@ -895,9 +903,6 @@ out_lock:

#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE

-/* Size of quota netlink message - actually an upperbound for buffer size */
-#define QUOTA_NL_MSG_SIZE 32
-
/* Netlink family structure for quota */
static struct genl_family quota_genl_family = {
.id = GENL_ID_GENERATE,
@@ -914,11 +919,13 @@ static void send_warning(const struct dquot *dquot, const char warntype)
struct sk_buff *skb;
void *msg_head;
int ret;
+ int msg_size = 4 * nla_total_size(sizeof(u32)) +
+ 2 * nla_total_size(sizeof(u64));

/* We have to allocate using GFP_NOFS as we are called from a
* filesystem performing write and thus further recursion into
* the fs to free some data could cause deadlocks. */
- skb = genlmsg_new(QUOTA_NL_MSG_SIZE, GFP_NOFS);
+ skb = genlmsg_new(msg_size, GFP_NOFS);
if (!skb) {
printk(KERN_ERR
"VFS: Not enough memory to send quota warning.\n");
@@ -959,7 +966,7 @@ static void send_warning(const struct dquot *dquot, const char warntype)
"VFS: Failed to send notification message: %d\n", ret);
return;
attr_err_out:
- printk(KERN_ERR "VFS: Failed to compose quota message: %d\n", ret);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "VFS: Not enough space to compose quota message!\n");
err_out:
kfree_skb(skb);
}
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