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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <haliu@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>,
	Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>, Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 iproute2 2/2] lib/libnetlink: update rtnl_talk to support malloc buff at run time
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 10:37:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002103708.0572704b@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1506605626-1744-3-git-send-email-haliu@redhat.com>

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:33:46 +0800
Hangbin Liu <haliu@redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
> 
> This is an update for 460c03f3f3cc ("iplink: double the buffer size also in
> iplink_get()"). After update, we will not need to double the buffer size
> every time when VFs number increased.
> 
> With call like rtnl_talk(&rth, &req.n, NULL, 0), we can simply remove the
> length parameter.
> 
> With call like rtnl_talk(&rth, nlh, nlh, sizeof(req), I add a new variable
> answer to avoid overwrite data in nlh, because it may has more info after
> nlh. also this will avoid nlh buffer not enough issue.
> 
> We need to free answer after using.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
> ---

Most of the uses of rtnl_talk() don't need to this peek and dynamic sizing.
Can only those places that need that be targeted?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-02 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-28 13:33 [PATCHv4 iproute2 0/2] libnetlink: malloc correct buff at run time Hangbin Liu
2017-09-28 13:33 ` [PATCHv4 iproute2 1/2] lib/libnetlink: re malloc buff if size is not enough Hangbin Liu
2017-09-29 12:55   ` Michal Kubecek
2017-09-29 17:54   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-09-29 18:20     ` Michal Kubecek
2017-09-30 13:54     ` Hangbin Liu
2017-09-28 13:33 ` [PATCHv4 iproute2 2/2] lib/libnetlink: update rtnl_talk to support malloc buff at run time Hangbin Liu
2017-09-29 13:06   ` Michal Kubecek
2017-10-02 17:37   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-10-09 20:25     ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-10  6:41       ` Michal Kubecek
2017-10-10 16:47         ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-10-11 10:40           ` Hangbin Liu
2017-10-11 11:10           ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-11 14:35             ` David Ahern
2017-10-12 16:07             ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-10-13 10:31               ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-25 10:45   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-10-25 13:16     ` Hangbin Liu

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