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

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Message-Id: <20110118.020702.115924992.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:07:02 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jarkao2@...il.com
Cc:	pablo@...filter.org, 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: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:38:11 +0000

> Even if I'm wrong, this change added to stable will break many configs.
> My proposal is to revert commit 0ab03c2b147 until proper fix is found.

The flag combination is, at best ambiguous, it has no proper
definition without the check we added.
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