From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, sd@queasysnail.net,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, kvalo@codeaurora.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pshelar@nicira.com,
dev@openvswitch.org, jhs@mojatatu.com,
philipp.reisner@linbit.com, lars.ellenberg@linbit.com,
drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/8] fs/quota: use nla_put_u64_64bit()
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:31:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <571F5FBE.8050900@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160426110848.GD27612@quack2.suse.cz>
Le 26/04/2016 13:08, Jan Kara a écrit :
> On Tue 26-04-16 10:06:13, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
>
> OK, so I somewhat miss a description of what will this do to the netlink
> message so that I can judge whether the change is fine for the userspace
> counterpart parsing these messages. AFAIU this changes the message format
> by adding a QUOTA_NL_A_PAD field before each 64-bit field which needs an
> alignment, am I guessing right? Thus when the userspace counterpart uses
> genlmsg_parse() it should just silently ignore these attributes if I read
> the documentation right. Did I understand this correctly?
Yes, that's it.
Regards,
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-26 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-26 8:06 [PATCH net-next 0/8] netlink: align attributes when needed (patchset #3) Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-26 8:06 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] macsec: use nla_put_u64_64bit() Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-26 8:06 ` [PATCH net-next 2/8] drivers/wireless: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-26 8:06 ` [PATCH net-next 3/8] fs/quota: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-26 11:08 ` Jan Kara
2016-04-26 12:31 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2016-04-26 12:37 ` Jan Kara
2016-04-26 16:24 ` David Miller
2016-04-26 8:06 ` [PATCH net-next 4/8] sock_diag: align nlattr properly when needed Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-26 8:06 ` [PATCH net-next 5/8] ovs: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-26 8:06 ` [PATCH net-next 6/8] rtnl: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-26 8:06 ` [PATCH net-next 7/8] neigh: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-26 8:06 ` [PATCH net-next 8/8] sched: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-26 11:54 ` [PATCH net-next 0/8] netlink: align attributes when needed (patchset #3) Lars Ellenberg
2016-04-26 12:18 ` [Drbd-dev] " Lars Ellenberg
2016-04-26 16:25 ` David Miller
2016-04-26 16:02 ` David Miller
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