David Ahern
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commit4054ab64e2upstream. A recent change to the netlink code:6e237d099f("netlink: Relax attr validation for fixed length types") logs a warning when programs send messages with invalid attributes (e.g., wrong length for a u32). Yafang reported this error message for tools/accounting/getdelays.c. send_cmd() is wrongly adding 1 to the attribute length. As noted in include/uapi/linux/netlink.h nla_len should be NLA_HDRLEN + payload length, so drop the +1. Fixes:9e06d3f9f6("per task delay accounting taskstats interface: documentation fix") Reported-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327173111.63922-1-dsahern@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.