3 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 480184a857d..9eb895c7a2a 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -452,6 +452,10 @@ static int netlink_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol)
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto out_module;
 
+	local_bh_disable();
+	sock_prot_inuse_add(net, &netlink_proto, 1);
+	local_bh_enable();
+
 	nlk = nlk_sk(sock->sk);
 	nlk->module = module;
 out:
@@ -511,6 +515,9 @@ static int netlink_release(struct socket *sock)
 	kfree(nlk->groups);
 	nlk->groups = NULL;
 
+	local_bh_disable();
+	sock_prot_inuse_add(sock_net(sk), &netlink_proto, -1);
+	local_bh_enable();
 	sock_put(sk);
 	return 0;
 }
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));
 
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 3e1191cecaf..1d3dd30099d 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ void genl_unregister_mc_group(struct genl_family *family,
 	__genl_unregister_mc_group(family, grp);
 	genl_unlock();
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_unregister_mc_group);
 
 static void genl_unregister_mc_groups(struct genl_family *family)
 {