rtnetlink: fix if_nlmsg_stats_size() under estimation
rtnl_fill_statsinfo() is filling skb with one mandatory if_stats_msg structure. nlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, type, sizeof(struct if_stats_msg), flags); But if_nlmsg_stats_size() never considered the needed storage. This bug did not show up because alloc_skb(X) allocates skb with extra tailroom, because of added alignments. This could very well be changed in the future to have deterministic behavior. Fixes: 10c9ead9 ("rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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