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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Cc: Edwin Peer <espeer@gmail.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com>,
	Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] netlink: truncate overlength attribute list in nla_nest_end()
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 09:17:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230606091706.47d2544d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0c04665f-545a-7552-a4c2-c7b9b2ee4e6b@nvidia.com>

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 11:01:14 +0300 Gal Pressman wrote:
> On 05/06/2023 22:27, Edwin Peer wrote:
> > Thanks for the CC, I left Broadcom quite some time ago and am no
> > longer subscribed to netdev as a result (been living in firmware land
> > doing work in Rust).
> > 
> > I have no immediate plans to pick this up, at least not in the short
> > to medium term. My work in progress was on the laptop I returned and I
> > cannot immediately recall what solution I had in mind here.
> 
> Jakub, sorry if this has been discussed already in the past, but can you
> please clarify what is an accepted (or more importantly, not accepted)
> solution for this issue? I'm not familiar with the history and don't
> want to repeat previous mistakes.

The problem is basically that attributes can only be 64kB and 
the legacy SR-IOV API wraps all the link info in an attribute.

> So far I've seen discussions about increasing the recv buffer size, and
> this patchset which changes the GETLINK ABI, both of which were nacked.

Filtering out some of the info, like the stats, is okay, but that just
increases the limit. A limit still exists.

> Having 'ip link show' broken is very unfortunate :\, how should one
> approach this issue in 2023?

Sure is, which is why we should be moving away from the legacy SR-IOV
APIs.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-06 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-23  4:53 [PATCH net-next 0/4] support for 256 VFs in RTM_GETLINK Edwin Peer
2021-01-23  4:53 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] netlink: truncate overlength attribute list in nla_nest_end() Edwin Peer
2021-01-23 19:14   ` David Ahern
2021-01-23 20:42     ` Edwin Peer
2021-01-23 21:03       ` Edwin Peer
2021-01-26  4:56         ` David Ahern
2021-01-26 17:51           ` Edwin Peer
2023-06-05  7:28             ` Gal Pressman
2023-06-05 18:58               ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-05 19:27                 ` Edwin Peer
2023-06-06  8:01                   ` Gal Pressman
2023-06-06 16:17                     ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-06-07 13:31                       ` Gal Pressman
2023-06-07 16:33                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-07 16:52                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-06-07 17:29                             ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-26  4:50       ` David Ahern
2021-01-26  1:43   ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-23  4:53 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] rtnetlink: extend RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS to IFLA_VF_INFO Edwin Peer
2021-01-26  1:55   ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-26 22:48     ` Edwin Peer
2021-01-23  4:53 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] rtnetlink: refactor IFLA_VF_INFO stats into rtnl_fill_vfstats() Edwin Peer
2021-01-23  4:53 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] rtnetlink: promote IFLA_VF_STATS to same level as IFLA_VF_INFO Edwin Peer
2021-01-26  2:01   ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-26 14:50     ` Edwin Peer

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