tree 7f2d25b44259bdeb8dd35448bbf16f68aa1d5dd2
parent 071f92d05967a0c8422f1c8587ce0b4d90a8b447
author Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> 1211478539 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1211478539 -0700

netlink: Fix nla_parse_nested_compat() to call nla_parse() directly

The purpose of nla_parse_nested_compat() is to parse attributes which
contain a struct followed by a stream of nested attributes.  So far,
it called nla_parse_nested() to parse the stream of nested attributes
which was wrong, as nla_parse_nested() expects a container attribute
as data which holds the attribute stream.  It needs to call
nla_parse() directly while pointing at the next possible alignment
point after the struct in the beginning of the attribute.

With this patch, I can no longer reproduce the reported leftover
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>