[PATCH net-next v4 03/11] tools: ynl-gen: add sub-type check
From: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-13 23:59:14
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Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest, yaml netlink (ynl) · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Donald Hunter
Add a check to verify that the sub-type is "nest", and throw an exception if no policy could be generated, as a guard to prevent against generating a bad policy. This is a trivial patch with no behavioural changes intended. Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <redacted> Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> --- tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
index 95a60fdaf14e..3266af19edcd 100755
--- a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py@@ -825,8 +825,10 @@ class TypeArrayNest(Type): return f'.type = YNL_PT_U{c_upper(self.sub_type[1:])}, ' elif self.attr['sub-type'] == 'binary' and 'exact-len' in self.checks: return f'.type = YNL_PT_BINARY, .len = {self.checks["exact-len"]}, ' - else: + elif self.attr['sub-type'] == 'nest': return f'.type = YNL_PT_NEST, .nest = &{self.nested_render_name}_nest, ' + else: + raise Exception(f"Typol for ArrayNest sub-type {self.attr['sub-type']} not supported, yet") def _attr_get(self, ri, var): local_vars = ['const struct nlattr *attr2;']
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