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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: netlink: 16 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process
 `ip'.
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:51:15 +0200
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:37:41 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> For ifaddrmsg ifa_flags aligns with ifi_type which is set by kernel side
> so this should be ok.

Does the existing user space set ifi_type to anything? Does it zero out
the field?

Are we able to find a flag value that is not going to be set by unaware
user space? I.e., a bit that is unused by the current ARPHRD values on
both little and big endian? (ARPHRD_NONE might be a problem, though...)

 Jiri