netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tipc: don't sanity check non-existing TLV (NL compat)

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Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:43:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	richard.alpe@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tipc: don't sanity check non-existing TLV (NL
 compat)

From: <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:15:10 +0200

> From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
> 
> A zero length payload means that no TLV (Type Length Value) data has
> been passed. Prior to this patch a non-existing TLV could be sanity
> checked with TLV_OK() resulting in random behavior where a user
> sending an empty message occasionally got a incorrect "operation not
> supported" message back.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>

Applied, thanks.
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