From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Brian Baboch <brian.baboch@wifirst.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Revert "rtnetlink: return EINVAL when request cannot succeed"
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:15:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d1db8978-a866-9552-50e6-34507bfcd62d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220419125151.15589-1-florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr>
On 4/19/22 05:51, Florent Fourcot wrote:
> This reverts commit b6177d3240a4
>
> ip-link command is testing kernel capability by sending a RTM_NEWLINK
> request, without any argument. It accepts everything in reply, except
> EOPNOTSUPP and EINVAL (functions iplink_have_newlink / accept_msg)
>
> So we must keep compatiblity here, invalid empty message should not
> return EINVAL
>
> Signed-off-by: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Thanks for fixing this issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-21 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-15 16:53 [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 1/4] rtnetlink: return ENODEV when ifname does not exist and group is given Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 19:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-04-19 7:29 ` Florent Fourcot
2022-04-19 15:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 2/4] rtnetlink: enable alt_ifname for setlink/newlink Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 3/4] rtnetlink: return ENODEV when IFLA_ALT_IFNAME is used in dellink Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 4/4] rtnetlink: return EINVAL when request cannot succeed Florent Fourcot
2022-04-15 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-04-19 7:29 ` Florent Fourcot
2022-04-22 1:27 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2022-04-15 19:03 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-19 11:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-04-19 11:50 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-19 12:51 ` [PATCH net-next] Revert "rtnetlink: return EINVAL when request cannot succeed" Florent Fourcot
2022-04-20 14:48 ` Guillaume Nault
2022-04-21 1:15 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2022-04-22 10:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-04-19 14:25 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] rtnetlink: improve ALT_IFNAME config and fix dangerous GROUP usage Florent Fourcot
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