On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:10:13 +0200 Martin Hundebøll wrote: > + int len = nla_len(data[IFLA_CAN_HW_FILTER]); > + int num_filter = len / sizeof(struct can_filter); > + struct can_filter *filter = nla_data(data[IFLA_CAN_HW_FILTER]); This will prevent you from ever extending struct can_filter in a backward-compatible fashion, right? I obviously know very little about CAN but are you confident a more bespoke API to manipulate filters individually and allow extensibility is not warranted?