Re: [PATCH net-next 00/20] rtnetlink: Add support for rigid checking of data in dump request
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-10-06 04:58:42
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-10-06 04:58:42
From: David Ahern <redacted> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:18:11 -0600
One thing I missed in the rfc and v1 versions is strict attribute parsing -- ie., there should be nothing remaining after nla_parse is done. I have a new patch that adds an nlmsg_parse_strict and nla_parse_strict that returns -EINVAL (with extack filled in) if that happens. The new patch pushes the set over 20. I can peel off the first 3 patches from this set which add extack to the dumps and down to nlmsg_parse and send those separately if preferred.
Don't worry about it, just send the whole thing. My rule with patch series sizes is "be reasonable", rather than a strict number requirement. Thanks.