On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:27:02 +0000 Keller, Jacob E wrote:

quoted

...or repost without the comment and move on. IDK if Jiri would like
to see the general problem of attr rejection solved right now but IMHO
it's perfectly fine to just make the user space DTRT.  

Its probably worth fixing policy, but would like to come up with a
proper path that doesn't break compatibility and that will require
discussion to figure out what approach works.

The problem does not exist for new commands, right? Because we don't
set GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT for new additions. For that reason I
don't think we are in the "sooner we fix the better" situation.