[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix Netlink receive message buffer size

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2021 10:32 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan at nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix Netlink receive message buffer size
> 
> If there are many VFs the Netlink message length sent by kernel
> in reply to RTM_GETLINK request can be large. We should query
> the size of message being received in advance and allocate
> the large enough buffer to handle these large messages.
> 
> Fixes: ccdcba53a3f4 ("net/mlx5: use Netlink to add/remove MAC addresses")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh