[PATCH net-next v2] taskstats: fix nl parsing in accounting/getdelays.c

From: Nicolas Dichtel
Date: Wed Apr 27 2016 - 11:53:49 EST


The type TASKSTATS_TYPE_NULL should always be ignored.

When jumping to the next attribute, only the length of the current
attribute should be added, not the length of all nested attributes.
This last bug was not visible before commit 80df554275c2, because the
kernel didn't put more than two nested attributes.

Fixes: a3baf649ca9c ("[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: documentation")
Fixes: 80df554275c2 ("taskstats: use the libnl API to align nlattr on 64-bit")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
index 7785fb5eb93f..b5ca536e56a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
@@ -505,6 +505,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
if (!loop)
goto done;
break;
+ case TASKSTATS_TYPE_NULL:
+ break;
default:
fprintf(stderr, "Unknown nested"
" nla_type %d\n",
@@ -512,7 +514,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
break;
}
len2 += NLA_ALIGN(na->nla_len);
- na = (struct nlattr *) ((char *) na + len2);
+ na = (struct nlattr *)((char *)na +
+ NLA_ALIGN(na->nla_len));
}
break;

--
2.8.1