Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-03-31 20:07:57
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-03-31 20:07:57
From: Patrick McHardy <redacted> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:40:51 +0200
Thanks. It seems it parses only top-level attributes, which is probably why you didn't need the nlattr_find command I used in my patch. The problem with this is that finding and parsing nested attributes using the existing BPF commands is complicated since you need to fully parse netlink headers and walk through them. You can't even reuse that part for multiple nested attributes since you can't jump backwards. So I think it would be preferrable to have a simpler method for this.
Agreed.