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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	arthur.marsh@internode.on.net, jengelh@medozas.de,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, hadi@cyberus.ca
Subject: Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:53:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D36FADD.8000405@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110118211450.GC4288@del.dom.local>

On 18/01/11 22:14, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:31:31PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> On 18/01/11 11:24, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 02:07:02AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>>>> From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:38:11 +0000
>>>>
>>>>> Even if I'm wrong, this change added to stable will break many configs.
>>>>> My proposal is to revert commit 0ab03c2b147 until proper fix is found.
>>>>
>>>> The flag combination is, at best ambiguous, it has no proper
>>>> definition without the check we added.
>>>
>>> Do you all expect all users manage to upgrade avahi app before
>>> changing their stable kernel? I mean "own distro" users especially.
>>
>> The combination that avahi uses makes no sense.
>>
>> I've been auditing user-space tools that may have problems with this change:
>>
>> * iw (it uses libnl)
>> * acpid (it uses a mangled version of libnetlink shipped in iproute)
>> * tstime, for taskstats, it uses libnl
>> * wimax-tools, it uses libnl
>> * quota-tools, it uses libnl
>> * keepalived, no libs used
>>
>> Well, I can keep looking for more, but I think that avahi is the only
>> one doing this incorrectly.
> 
> BTW, could you answer my earlier question, why NLM_F_ATOMIC flag isn't
> handled now with dumps?

The NLM_F_ATOMIC flag is not affected, the netlink header is still
passed to netlink_dump_start() so you can check for it in the callback
to start an atomic dump.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-16  8:54 inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied Arthur Marsh
2011-01-16  9:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-16 10:50   ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-16 12:39     ` Arthur Marsh
     [not found]     ` <4D32E3BA.5040008@internode.on.net>
2011-01-16 21:17       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-17  1:03         ` Arthur Marsh
2011-01-18  9:38         ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 10:07           ` David Miller
2011-01-18 10:24             ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 14:05               ` jamal
2011-01-18 14:07                 ` jamal
2011-01-18 17:22                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 18:11                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 20:39                 ` David Miller
2011-01-18 20:31               ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-18 20:50                 ` David Miller
2011-01-19 17:42                   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-19 21:34                     ` David Miller
2011-01-18 20:55                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 14:28                   ` jamal
2011-01-19 16:54                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 16:59                       ` jamal
2011-01-19 17:19                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 17:33                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 18:04                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-19 19:24                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 19:47                           ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-19 20:12                             ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 21:14                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-19 14:53                   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2011-01-19 16:18                     ` Jarek Poplawski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-18 17:23 Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 18:10 ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-01-18 18:23   ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 18:24   ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-18 18:28     ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 18:47       ` Jarek Poplawski
2011-01-18 19:26         ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-01-18 20:07           ` Jarek Poplawski

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