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Message-ID: <8e4ba571-de11-8448-c44c-cbc7024ab9a4@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:46:22 -0700
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To: Thomas Haller <thaller@...hat.com>,
Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] netlink: add validation of NLA_F_NESTED
flag
On 7/23/19 1:57 AM, Thomas Haller wrote:
> Does this flag and strict validation really provide any value? Commonly a netlink message
> is a plain TLV blob, and the meaning depends entirely on the policy.
Strict checking enables kernel side filtering and other features that
require passing attributes as part of the dump request - like address
dumps in a specific namespace.
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