netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ipxfrm: wrong nl msg sent on deleteall cmd

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Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:05:07 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gregory.hoggarth@...iedtelesis.co.nz
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ipxfrm: wrong nl msg sent on deleteall cmd

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:00:53 +0200
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:

> XFRM netlink family is independent from the route netlink family. It's wrong
> to call rtnl_wilddump_request(), because it will add a 'struct ifinfomsg' into
> the header and the kernel will complain (at least for xfrm state):
> 
> netlink: 24 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `ip'.
> 
> Reported-by: Gregory Hoggarth <Gregory.Hoggarth@...iedtelesis.co.nz>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Applied thanks

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