Re: [RFC] netlink: limit recursion depth in policy validation

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 19:06 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 
> > This basically flattens the whole thing.
> > 
> > Obviously, the walking may allocate some memory, and the last loop to
> > send it out isn't actually a loop like that because it's a netlink dump
> > with each entry being in a separate netlink message, but that's the gist
> > of it.
> 
> I see, following this approach, I can just remove the duplicated code
> in my netlink description stuff by using the list of policy
> structures.

I wrote the code in a way that you can reuse it easily, check out the
patch :-) Generic netlink is one user added by the patch, but the actual
exposing code is with general attributes and general code that you can
easily call.

Meanwhile, I'm still writing a response to your other email, give me a
few minutes.

johannes