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From: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr>
Subject: Re: [RFC 7/9] snet: introduce snet_netlink.c and snet_netlink.h
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:42:48 +0100
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Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> writes:

> Samir Bellabes wrote:
>> +	skb_rsp = genlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (skb_rsp == NULL)
>> +		return 0;
>
> You could decrease the chance of rcvqueue overflow by using a smaller
> allocation size.

I took care of this by calculating the exact needed size.

thanks,
sam