From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:08:48 +0200

On Tue 26-04-16 10:06:13, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:

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Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <redacted>

OK, so I somewhat miss a description of what will this do to the netlink
message so that I can judge whether the change is fine for the userspace
counterpart parsing these messages. AFAIU this changes the message format
by adding a QUOTA_NL_A_PAD field before each 64-bit field which needs an
alignment, am I guessing right? Thus when the userspace counterpart uses
genlmsg_parse() it should just silently ignore these attributes if I read
the documentation right. Did I understand this correctly?

All userspace components using netlink should always ignore attributes
they do not recognize in dumps.

This is one of the most basic principles of netlink.