netdev - Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink: fix link attribute validation with IFLA

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Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:29:06 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ddvlad@...edu.org
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink: fix link attribute validation with
 IFLA_GROUP

From: Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:09:10 +0200

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:00:42PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Fix a few semantic problems with the new IFLA_GROUP attribute.
>> 
>> Vlad, could you please give this is a try to see whether it
>> still behaves as expected?
> 
>> commit e4b31d565a45e06ed2e51a005f5c00ff1d00725c
>> Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
>> Date:   Thu Jan 20 13:55:25 2011 +0100
>> 
>>     rtnetlink: fix link attribute validation with IFLA_GROUP
>>     
>>     rtnl_group_changelink() is invoked by rtnl_newlink() before the link
>>     attributes have been validated. Additionally the group changes are
>>     performed even if NLM_F_CREATE is specified and a new link is
>>     created, while more reasonable semantics would be to set the group
>>     value on the newly created link.
>>     
>>     Fix both problems by moving the rtnl_group_changelink() invocation
>>     down to the handling of non-existant links without NLM_F_CREATE()
>>     and add a dev_set_group() call to rtnl_create_link().
>>     
>>     Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> 
> Acked-by: Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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