From: Christophe Ricard <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:07:48 +0200
> Since commit c05cdb1b864f ("netlink: allow large data transfers from
> user-space"), the kernel may fail to allocate the necessary room for the
> acknowledgment message back to userspace. This patch introduces a new
> socket option that trims off the payload of the original netlink message.
>
> The netlink message header is still included, so the user can guess from
> the sequence number what is the message that has triggered the
> acknowledgment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Ricard <[email protected]>
Applied.
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