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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix validate_link_af in rtnetlink core
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:33:48 -0800 (PST)
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From: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:55:24 +0100

> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure about this patch.
> 
> I'm testing an API that uses IFLA_AF_SPEC attribute.
> In the rtnetlink core , the set_link_af() member
> of the rtnl_af_ops struct receives the nested attribute
> (as I expected), but the validate_link_af() member
> receives the parent attribute.
> IMO, this patch fixes this.
> 
> Since I didn't find any code in iproute2 that makes use
> of this attribute, I wasn't able to verify this on the userspace
> end.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>

Applied, thanks.