Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/6] tools: ynl: convert enum selector to string for sub-message parsing

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Sat, 3 Oct 2026 14:23:53 +0800 Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > [Severity: High]
> > Does returning 0 here abort the entire parsing loop?
> > 
> > If a generated YNL parser encounters an unrecognized sub-message enum
> > selector (for example, sent by a newer kernel), it looks like `return 0;`
> > executes directly inside the attribute loop of the parsing function.
> > 
> > This would silently abort processing the remainder of the Netlink message and
> > drop all trailing attributes without returning an error. Is it possible to
> > skip the attribute and continue parsing instead?  
> 
> OK, I will use continue then.

Ehm, probably do something like:

  return ynl_submsg_failed(yarg, self.name, "enum-lookup-failed")

? AFAICT if string lookup fails we'd error out.