Hi,
so lately I am seeing a bunch of these warnings:
netlink: 16 bytes leftover after parsing attributes..
While they give you the process name, they are still useless to track down the message that causes them. I find them even more useless since an updated userspace on an older kernel can trigger the nla_policy warning here. And that updated userspace program is doing nothing wrong by including extra attributes. So what purpose is this warning serving?
Regards
Marcel
Le 18/10/2016 à 07:06, Marcel Holtmann a écrit :
Hi,
so lately I am seeing a bunch of these warnings:
netlink: 16 bytes leftover after parsing attributes..
While they give you the process name, they are still useless to track down the message that causes them. I find them even more useless since an updated userspace on an older kernel can trigger the nla_policy warning here. And that updated userspace program is doing nothing wrong by including extra attributes. So what purpose is this warning serving?
Usually, it means that a netlink message is malformed, for example that the
header of the family has the wrong size. An unknown attribute should not trigger
this kind of message.
Here is an example:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e5eca6d41f53d
Regards,
Nicolas