Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/6] net: bridge: Set strict_start_type for br_policy

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On 9/19/23 11:12, Johannes Nixdorf wrote:
Set any new attributes added to br_policy to be parsed strictly, to
prevent userspace from passing garbage.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Nixdorf <jnixdorf-oss@xxxxxx>
---
  net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index 10f0d33d8ccf..505683ef9a26 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -1229,6 +1229,8 @@ static size_t br_port_get_slave_size(const struct net_device *brdev,
  }
static const struct nla_policy br_policy[IFLA_BR_MAX + 1] = {
+	[IFLA_BR_UNSPEC]	= { .strict_start_type =
+				    IFLA_BR_MCAST_QUERIER_STATE + 1 },
  	[IFLA_BR_FORWARD_DELAY]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
  	[IFLA_BR_HELLO_TIME]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
  	[IFLA_BR_MAX_AGE]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },


instead of IFLA_BR_MCAST_QUERIER_STATE + 1, why not move around the patch and just use the new attribute name?
These are uapi, they won't change.



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