On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:33:46 +0800 Hangbin Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Hangbin Liu <[email protected]> > > This is an update for 460c03f3f3cc ("iplink: double the buffer size also in > iplink_get()"). After update, we will not need to double the buffer size > every time when VFs number increased. > > With call like rtnl_talk(&rth, &req.n, NULL, 0), we can simply remove the > length parameter. > > With call like rtnl_talk(&rth, nlh, nlh, sizeof(req), I add a new variable > answer to avoid overwrite data in nlh, because it may has more info after > nlh. also this will avoid nlh buffer not enough issue. > > We need to free answer after using. > > Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <[email protected]> This does not apply cleanly to net-next branch Applying: lib/libnetlink: update rtnl_talk to support malloc buff at run time error: patch failed: ip/ipl2tp.c:185 error: ip/ipl2tp.c: patch does not apply error: patch failed: ip/iplink.c:1023 error: ip/iplink.c: patch does not apply Patch failed at 0002 lib/libnetlink: update rtnl_talk to support malloc buff at run time
