Re: [PATCH net v2] net: enable interface alias removal via rtnl

Le 10/10/2017 à 16:50, David Ahern a écrit :

On 10/10/17 6:41 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:

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IFLA_IFALIAS is defined as NLA_STRING. It means that the minimal length of
the attribute is 1 ("\0"). However, to remove an alias, the attribute
length must be 0 (see dev_set_alias()).

Let's define the type to NLA_BINARY, so that the alias can be removed.

not to be pedantic, but we need to be clear that the type is changed
only for policy validation.

With the comment in the code, it is clear, isn't it?


Regards,
Nicolas