Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2022-07-26

Re: [PATCH net] bridge: Do not send empty IFLA_AF_SPEC attribute

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Date: 2022-07-25 07:43:07
Also in: bridge

On 25/07/2022 03:12, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
After commit b6c02ef54913 ("bridge: Netlink interface fix."),
br_fill_ifinfo() started to send an empty IFLA_AF_SPEC attribute when a
bridge vlan dump is requested but an interface does not have any vlans
configured.

iproute2 ignores such an empty attribute since commit b262a9becbcb
("bridge: Fix output with empty vlan lists") but older iproute2 versions as
well as other utilities have their output changed by the cited kernel
commit, resulting in failed test cases. Regardless, emitting an empty
attribute is pointless and inefficient.

Avoid this change by canceling the attribute if no AF_SPEC data was added.

Fixes: b6c02ef54913 ("bridge: Netlink interface fix.")
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <redacted>
---
 net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index bb01776d2d88..c96509c442a5 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -589,9 +589,13 @@ static int br_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 
 done:
+	if (af) {
+		if (nlmsg_get_pos(skb) - (void *)af > nla_attr_size(0))
+			nla_nest_end(skb, af);
+		else
+			nla_nest_cancel(skb, af);
+	}
 
-	if (af)
-		nla_nest_end(skb, af);
 	nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
 	return 0;
 
br_fill_ifinfo has been a mess, at some point we have to refactor it.

Anyway, thanks for the patch:
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
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