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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Lin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
	richardcochran@gmail.com, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
	hawk@kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] i40e: Add length check for IFLA_AF_SPEC parsing
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:53:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230725095327.385616f1@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230725054046.GK11388@unreal>

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:40:46 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > Empty attributes are valid, we can't do that.  
> 
> Maybe Lin can add special version of nla_for_each_nested() which will
> skip these empty NLAs, for code which don't allow empty attributes.

It's way too arbitrary. Empty attrs are 100% legit, they are called
NLA_FLAG in policy parlance. They are basically a boolean.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-25 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-23  7:50 [PATCH v1] i40e: Add length check for IFLA_AF_SPEC parsing Lin Ma
2023-07-24 17:44 ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-07-24 21:21   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-25  0:00     ` Lin Ma
2023-07-25  5:40     ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-07-25 16:53       ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-07-25 18:36         ` Leon Romanovsky

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