diff -aurp open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i/usr/netlink.c open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i.test/usr/netlink.c
--- open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i/usr/netlink.c	2011-09-20 18:01:34.000000000 -0500
+++ open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i.test/usr/netlink.c	2011-09-20 18:01:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ kwritev(enum iscsi_uevent_e type, struct
 	for (i = 1; i < count; i++)
 		datalen += iovp[i].iov_len;
 
-	nlh->nlmsg_len = NLMSG_ALIGN(datalen);
+	nlh->nlmsg_len = datalen + sizeof(*nlh);
 	nlh->nlmsg_pid = getpid();
 	nlh->nlmsg_flags = 0;
 	nlh->nlmsg_type = type;