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Authored by kp on Oct 16 2023, 12:07 PM.
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Summary

If a request ends up growing beyong the initially allocated space the
netlink functions (such as snl_add_msg_attr_u32()) will allocate a
new buffer. This invalidates the header pointer we can have received
from snl_create_msg_request(). Always use the hdr returned by
snl_finalize_msg().

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")

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