From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: jarkao2@gmail.com, pablo@netfilter.org,
arthur.marsh@internode.on.net, jengelh@medozas.de,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:39:42 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110118.123942.48516205.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295359503.2066.10.camel@mojatatu>
From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:05:03 -0500
> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:24 +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>
>> Do you all expect all users manage to upgrade avahi app before
>> changing their stable kernel? I mean "own distro" users especially.
>
> Unfortunately if that app is widely deployed, it is not pragmatic
> to break it in the name of pedanticity. i.e.
> Be conservative in what you send (clearly Avahi is farting all over the
> place) but more importantly be a nice liberal in what you accept.
> Maybe tell them if you have the cycles about their bad behavior.
> The important part is the GET (kind = 2). The DUMP as Jarek says
> is merely a utility to extrapolate that we need you to
> get everything.. So it is not such a big deal if someone passes
> extraneous senseless flags. Wrong? yes.
Fair enough, I'll revert the netlink patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-18 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-16 8:54 inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied Arthur Marsh
2011-01-16 9:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-16 10:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-16 12:39 ` Arthur Marsh
[not found] ` <4D32E3BA.5040008@internode.on.net>
2011-01-16 21:17 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-17 1:03 ` Arthur Marsh
2011-01-18 9:38 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 10:07 ` David Miller
2011-01-18 10:24 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 14:05 ` jamal
2011-01-18 14:07 ` jamal
2011-01-18 17:22 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 18:11 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 20:39 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-01-18 20:31 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-18 20:50 ` David Miller
2011-01-19 17:42 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-19 21:34 ` David Miller
2011-01-18 20:55 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 14:28 ` jamal
2011-01-19 16:54 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 16:59 ` jamal
2011-01-19 17:19 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 17:33 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 18:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-19 19:24 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 19:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-19 20:12 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 21:14 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 14:53 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-19 16:18 ` Jarek Poplawski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-18 17:23 Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 18:10 ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-01-18 18:23 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 18:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-18 18:28 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 18:47 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 19:26 ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-01-18 20:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
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