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Re: [PATCH 4/6] netlink: add strict parsing for future attributes

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Le 04/04/2019 à 08:54, Johannes Berg a écrit :
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> As we didn't want to add another argument to all functions that get a
> netlink policy, the workaround is to encode that boundary in the first
> entry of the policy array (which is for type 0 and thus probably not
> really valid anyway). I put it into the validation union for the rare
> possibility that somebody is actually using attribute 0, which would
> continue to work fine unless they tried to use the extended validation,
> which isn't likely. We also didn't find any in-tree users with type 0.
OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_ID seems to be one if I'm not wrong.


Regards,
Nicolas



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