> On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 11:13 +0000, Sergey Matyukevich wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:12:47AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > [External Email]: This email arrived from an external source - Please exercise caution when opening any attachments or clicking on links. > > > > > > On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 09:07 +0000, Sergey Matyukevich wrote: > > > > Do not perform strict validation of UPDATE_OWE command. > > > > Otherwise, kernel rejects command executed by hostapd. > > > > > > Can't we fix hostapd? I mean, it's a relatively new command, so why > > > shouldn't we validate it strictly? > > > > That is why this patch is RFC: see cover email :) > > Ah, was on the phone and hadn't read that yet ... > > > Sure, I can fix hostapd instead. Could you point me at some good > > starting point to look at ? Are there any user-space tools that > > started to use strict validation ? > > It's not really opt-in or not, it's entirely a kernel choice. I mean, I don't know what userspace is supposed to do in the case, when kernel is doing strict validation. So I was asking about any pointers to docs or userspace tools that already do netlink machinery appropriately. > > P.S. > > If you are ok with the second patch, then could you just take it > > from this series ? Or should I resubmit ? > > I can just take it. Ok Regards, Sergey
