The patch titled
     Fix computation of SKB size for quota messages
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     fix-computation-of-skb-size-for-quota-messages.patch

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Subject: Fix computation of SKB size for quota messages
From: Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Fix computation of size of skb needed for quota message.  We should use
netlink provided functions and not just an ad-hoc number.  Also don't print
the return value from nla_put_foo() as it is always -1.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 fs/dquot.c |    9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/dquot.c~fix-computation-of-skb-size-for-quota-messages fs/dquot.c
--- a/fs/dquot.c~fix-computation-of-skb-size-for-quota-messages
+++ a/fs/dquot.c
@@ -895,9 +895,6 @@ out_lock:
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE
 
-/* Size of quota netlink message - actually an upperbound for buffer size */
-#define QUOTA_NL_MSG_SIZE 32
-
 /* Netlink family structure for quota */
 static struct genl_family quota_genl_family = {
        .id = GENL_ID_GENERATE,
@@ -914,11 +911,13 @@ static void send_warning(const struct dq
        struct sk_buff *skb;
        void *msg_head;
        int ret;
+       int msg_size = 4 * nla_total_size(sizeof(u32)) +
+                      2 * nla_total_size(sizeof(u64));
 
        /* We have to allocate using GFP_NOFS as we are called from a
         * filesystem performing write and thus further recursion into
         * the fs to free some data could cause deadlocks. */
-       skb = genlmsg_new(QUOTA_NL_MSG_SIZE, GFP_NOFS);
+       skb = genlmsg_new(msg_size, GFP_NOFS);
        if (!skb) {
                printk(KERN_ERR
                  "VFS: Not enough memory to send quota warning.\n");
@@ -959,7 +958,7 @@ static void send_warning(const struct dq
                        "VFS: Failed to send notification message: %d\n", ret);
        return;
 attr_err_out:
-       printk(KERN_ERR "VFS: Failed to compose quota message: %d\n", ret);
+       printk(KERN_ERR "VFS: Not enough space to compose quota message!\n");
 err_out:
        kfree_skb(skb);
 }
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

fix-compilation-warning-in-dquotc.patch
fix-computation-of-skb-size-for-quota-messages.patch
inotify-send-in_attrib-events-when-link-count-changes.patch
inotify-send-in_attrib-events-when-link-count-changes-fix.patch
quota-improve-inode-list-scanning-in-add_dquot_ref.patch
quota-improve-inode-list-scanning-in-add_dquot_ref-fix.patch
jbd2-fix-assertion-failure-in-fs-jbd2-checkpointc.patch
r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-some-ioctls-vs-forbid-user-to-change-file-flags-on-quota-files.patch
iget-stop-ext3-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try.patch
iget-stop-ext3-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try-checkpatch-fixes.patch
iget-stop-ext4-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try.patch

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