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Hangbin Liu
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The netlink attribute length field nla_len is a __u16, which can only represent values up to 65535 bytes. NICs with a large number of statistics strings (e.g. mlx5_core with thousands of ETH_SS_STATS entries) can produce a ETHTOOL_A_STRINGSET_STRINGS nest that exceeds this limit. When nla_nest_end() writes the actual nest size back to nla_len, the value is silently truncated. This results in a corrupted netlink message being sent to userspace: the parser reads a wrong (truncated) attribute length and misaligns all subsequent attribute boundaries, causing decode errors. Fix this by using the new helper nla_nest_end_safe and error out if the size exceeds U16_MAX. Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408-b4-ynl_ethtool-v2-5-7623a5e8f70b@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>