RE: [PATCH] Tools: hv: correct payload size in netlink_send

2013-08-07 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Olaf Hering [mailto:o...@aepfle.de] > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 9:07 AM > To: KY Srinivasan; gre...@linuxfoundation.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Olaf Hering > Subject: [PATCH] Tools: hv: correct payload size in netlink_send

[PATCH] Tools: hv: correct payload size in netlink_send

2013-08-07 Thread Olaf Hering
netlink_send is supposed to send just the cn_msg+hv_kvp_msg via netlink. Currently it sets an incorrect iovec size, as reported by valgrind. In the case of registering with the kernel the allocated buffer is large enough to hold nlmsghdr+cn_msg+hv_kvp_msg, no overrun happens. In the case of respon