From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:04:19 +1100

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:02:02PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Create a lot of intefaces, try to dump them :-)
> 
> Dumps should be done using 4K (NLMSG_GOODSIZE) skb's, where is the problem?

Actually, more accurately it's using PAGE_SIZE. :)

> > GLIBC can even hit this via it's ifaddrs.c code.
> 
> Do you have a simple test case that I can run?

I see, so the better fix would be to make glibc's
netlink_request() function start with a getpagesize()'d
buffer.

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