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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking option
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:07:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3kv3hwv.fsf@stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1444926905.git.jbenc@redhat.com>

Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> writes:

> Before using this new facility, the application should check whether it is
> supported by the kernel. This is done by sending a NLMSG_NOOP message with
> NLM_F_REQUEST | NLM_F_STRICT | NLM_F_ACK flags set. If the returned message
> has NLM_F_STRICT set, the kernel does support NLM_F_STRICT flag; otherwise,
> the flag should not be used.

Do you plan to update rfc3549, too? :}

Bye,
Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-15 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-15 16:39 [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking option Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 16:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/9] netlink: add NLM_F_STRICT for strict attribute checking Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 16:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/9] netlink: remove unnecesary goto's Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 16:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 3/9] netlink: strict attribute parsing Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 16:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 4/9] netlink: strict attribute validation Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 16:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 5/9] rtnetlink: support strict attribute checking Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 16:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 6/9] rtnetlink: add strict parameter to validate callbacks Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 16:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 7/9] rtnetlink: add strict parameter to validate_link_af Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 16:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 8/9] rtnetlink: support strict checking for newlink, setlink and dellink Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 16:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 9/9] veth: validate nested attributes Jiri Benc
2015-10-15 22:07 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2015-10-16  7:49   ` [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] netlink: strict attribute checking option Jiri Benc
2015-10-16  8:08     ` David Miller
2015-10-16  8:08       ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-16  9:40         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-16 10:00           ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-16  6:50 ` David Miller
2015-10-16  7:39   ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-16  8:06     ` David Miller
2015-10-16  8:02       ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-16  8:09         ` Thomas Graf
2015-10-16 15:57         ` David Ahern
2015-10-19  2:29           ` David Miller

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