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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, mq@ucw.cz
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dsa@cumulusnetworks.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: Truncate single route when it doesn't fit into dump buffer.
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 10:26:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3828cf04-1bf8-92d2-dfc4-184bd615fe10@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170512.112447.1421545301592945998.davem@davemloft.net>

On 5/12/17 8:24 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@ucw.cz>
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 13:15:10 +0200
> 
>> -int rt6_dump_route(struct rt6_info *rt, void *p_arg);
>> +int rt6_dump_route(struct rt6_info *rt, void *p_arg, int truncate);
> 
> Please use "bool" and "true"/"false" for boolean values.
> 
> What does ipv4 do in this situation?
> 
> I'm hesitant to be OK with adding a new nlmsg flag just for this case
> if we solve this problem differently and using existing mechanisms
> elsewhere.
> 

I'll take a look at this later today or this weekend; we can't just
truncate the route returned to userspace.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-12 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-12 11:15 [PATCH] net: ipv6: Truncate single route when it doesn't fit into dump buffer Jan Moskyto Matejka
2017-05-12 15:24 ` David Miller
2017-05-12 17:26   ` David Ahern [this message]
2017-05-12 17:34     ` David Miller
2017-05-12 21:41     ` Jan Moskyto Matejka
2017-05-13  6:52       ` David Ahern
2017-05-13 10:54         ` Jan Moskyto Matejka
2017-05-13 17:13           ` David Ahern
2017-05-13 17:29             ` Jan Moskyto Matejka
2017-05-14 21:00               ` Johannes Berg
2017-05-14 22:14                 ` David Ahern
2017-05-14 22:20                   ` Johannes Berg
2017-05-12 21:34   ` Jan Moskyto Matejka
2017-05-12 21:43     ` Jan Moskyto Matejka

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