Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
  net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular.
  igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
  net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
  gro: Fix potential use after free
  sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
  sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
  sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
  sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
  sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
  sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
  sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
  sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
  802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
  802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
  802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
  802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
  802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
  802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
  802.3ad: make ntt bool
  ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
  ...

Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/net/netlink/attr.c
index 2d106cfe1d2..56c3ce7fe29 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/net/netlink/attr.c
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ static int validate_nla(struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
 		if (attrlen < NLA_ALIGN(pt->len) + NLA_HDRLEN + nla_len(nla))
 			return -ERANGE;
 		break;
+	case NLA_NESTED:
+		/* a nested attributes is allowed to be empty; if its not,
+		 * it must have a size of at least NLA_HDRLEN.
+		 */
+		if (attrlen == 0)
+			break;
 	default:
 		if (pt->len)
 			minlen = pt->len;
@@ -233,7 +239,7 @@ size_t nla_strlcpy(char *dst, const struct nlattr *nla, size_t dstsize)
  *
  * Returns the number of bytes copied.
  */
-int nla_memcpy(void *dest, struct nlattr *src, int count)
+int nla_memcpy(void *dest, const struct nlattr *src, int count)
 {
 	int minlen = min_t(int, count, nla_len(src));