From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6144B44C51E; Thu, 6 Aug 2026 11:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786014070; cv=none; b=MM23h3PhoV0haApLD4+FCKhIj56zcd19ysklSxHnp5kttqpnuJ+lt8JuYQHWLhHCj3pyxQbuxvSflyJn5aNSaM/pukvCec/rzaUydbPBjEyOjxyi2mbHJzegjle6Lr9tY8Bn5MNUoXlpHAHyUSxIiWz8aS9Fr8FmjawSimS0hws= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786014070; c=relaxed/simple; bh=WCSoqS3pUJKJoA4xArINSHjysEl99GdjTHyM1L3QneU=; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Subject:From:Message-Id:Date:References: In-Reply-To:To:Cc; b=kdtfa+zViXbzR+RZGx4sy9IG8L5k37LCbO3+pg0xSPBeew6gLAHMMPiu3crL/X9xxzNQmW3oL4GwKvxvVkXv2OzH2201/qjC1c7gQf1kh/uFayyQxwkgrh1x/7UnNhWPiWv31vvtgr21Whw7i4AVYR4qJaW7qNXN0RLFwoOB1sg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=oqVcmV8a; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="oqVcmV8a" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3035B1F00A3A; Thu, 6 Aug 2026 11:01:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1786014069; bh=ONk+gNvthaGJYJkBNeuMrqJiZPtO9rMt7uPFqnRXrgM=; h=Subject:From:Date:References:In-Reply-To:To:Cc; b=oqVcmV8a7Buoqwaydxx96t308wx3lV6n8KyeczFlx700krzm9dZ3IoJXV/GucblG9 gMa9PGIruK1WyfK3hcXQhSZMyPWcb9tzlD1J5gJOkSTpyb9nMglQrxo9WHBWqcfkVs crMlauem1LuRY/M6mQt1VwabraYsmdJuxflFY3YfijUoVoHvDhXF/+ZxW02duAu3fa iv4y5t5tDl13LvvM1Xw+7H0EpBlU1Y1CjPy82EQXrlHO2h1Zq1u76UBXV0m24Ga56h ccoevtA9NV44F8kWkenoKBfVhJJOkQPL11/ca1PHQZU2/KVRxbg88ky3OV5w2Y7PZZ 5qSBpcG0WH0xg== Received: from [10.30.226.235] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by aws-us-west-2-korg-oddjob-rhel9-1.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0931380AA4F; Thu, 6 Aug 2026 11:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] rtnetlink: cap IFLA_VFINFO_LIST at a documented number of VFs From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org Message-Id: <178601402843.783742.8946807120634040311.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:00:28 +0000 References: <20260801114944.115272-1-iprintercanon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20260801114944.115272-1-iprintercanon@gmail.com> To: Artem Lytkin Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, donald.hunter@gmail.com, jacob.e.keller@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main) by Paolo Abeni : On Sat, 1 Aug 2026 14:49:44 +0300 you wrote: > rtnl_fill_vf() emits one IFLA_VF_INFO per VF into the IFLA_VFINFO_LIST > nest and closes it with nla_nest_end(), which stores the accumulated > length into nla_len. That field is a u16, so a nest larger than 65535 > bytes is written truncated modulo 65536. The list dates back to commit > c02db8c6290b ("rtnetlink: make SR-IOV VF interface symmetric") in 2010 > and has never been able to describe an arbitrary number of VFs; nothing > regressed, the encoding simply cannot represent it. > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [net-next,v3] rtnetlink: cap IFLA_VFINFO_LIST at a documented number of VFs https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/51e15308c6ae You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html