netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64

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Date:	Tue, 03 May 2016 12:06:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lars.ellenberg@...bit.com
Cc:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	philipp.reisner@...bit.com, drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit()

From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 12:06:44 +0200

> Whereas using some arbitrary value will be wrong,
> and will needlessly break userland.

It cannot break userland.

A fundamental property of netlink is that all code must silently
ignore netlink attributes it does not understand.

This is why netlink is easily extensible.

If code isn't doing that, it is broken and must be fixed.