netdev - Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:50:51 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pablo@...filter.org
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, arthur.marsh@...ernode.on.net,
	jengelh@...ozas.de, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	hadi@...erus.ca
Subject: Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags
 of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:31:31 +0100

> The combination that avahi uses makes no sense.
> 
> I've been auditing user-space tools that may have problems with this change:
> 
> * iw (it uses libnl)
> * acpid (it uses a mangled version of libnetlink shipped in iproute)
> * tstime, for taskstats, it uses libnl
> * wimax-tools, it uses libnl
> * quota-tools, it uses libnl
> * keepalived, no libs used
> 
> Well, I can keep looking for more, but I think that avahi is the only
> one doing this incorrectly.
> 
> Please, fix avahi instead.

That's a pretty compelling argument, so I'll hold off on the revert
for now.
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