Re: [PATCH net-next iproute2 1/3] netlink: import netlink message parsing from kernel

From: David Ahern <redacted>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 10:51:23 -0600

On 5/2/17 9:25 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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Please either use existing netlink attribute code in libnetlink.h
(rta_getattr_u32 etc) or use libmnl like devlink.

All of the existing rta_ functions take a struct rta_attr; netlink
messages use struct nlattr. It's just wrong to use rta functions for
netlink messages.

Agreed.

There is no existing parse function for nlattr. There is no existing
validate function - for nlattr or rta_attr. So I do not see any overlap
with existing code.

Also agreed.