Hi Sergey, > > I noticed that not all parameters are added to nla_policy. For > example, NL80211_STA_INFO_CONNECTED_TIME > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/iw.git/commit/?id=087d778f6f82346debfd275ddbb8f646f9a1a167) > is parsed, but absent from stats_policy. > > The question is whether it is done accidentally or deliberately? Is > there some hidden logic not to add attributes to policy? And then why > to use policy at all if some attributes are not checked anyway? No, there's no particular reason or policy (pun intended) to this ... It's kind of just being a bit lazy, and we have to trust the kernel to not kill the process anyway, in a sense. But I think the right way still would be to have a policy so we can detect errors. johannes
