From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, cong.wang@bytedance.com, edumazet@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 21:03:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220415210345.08b0ab75@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220415165330.10497-1-florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr>
On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:53:26 +0200 Florent Fourcot wrote:
> First commit forbids dangerous calls when both IFNAME and GROUP are
> given, since it can introduce unexpected behaviour when IFNAME does not
> match any interface.
>
> Second patch achieves primary goal of this patchset to fix/improve
> IFLA_ALT_IFNAME attribute, since previous code was never working for
> newlink/setlink. ip-link command is probably getting interface index
> before, and was not using this feature.
>
> Last two patches are improving error code on corner cases.
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-15 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-15 16:53 [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 1/4] rtnetlink: return ENODEV when ifname does not exist and group is given Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 19:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-04-19 7:29 ` Florent Fourcot
2022-04-19 15:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 2/4] rtnetlink: enable alt_ifname for setlink/newlink Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 3/4] rtnetlink: return ENODEV when IFLA_ALT_IFNAME is used in dellink Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 4/4] rtnetlink: return EINVAL when request cannot succeed Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-04-19 7:29 ` Florent Fourcot
2022-04-22 1:27 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2022-04-15 19:03 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-04-19 11:50 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-04-19 11:50 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-19 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next] Revert "rtnetlink: return EINVAL when request cannot succeed" Florent Fourcot
2022-04-20 14:48 ` Guillaume Nault
2022-04-21 1:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-04-22 10:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-04-19 14:25 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage Florent Fourcot
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