netdev - Re: [RFC PATCHv2 bridge 7/7] bridge: Add the ability to show dump the vlan map from a bridge port

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:39:15 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	<vyasevic@...hat.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv2 bridge 7/7] bridge: Add the ability to show dump
 the vlan map from a bridge port

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 09:49 -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> On 09/22/2012 04:05 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:27:47 -0400 (EDT)
> > David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> >> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:15:32 +0100
> >>
> >>> On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 08:42 -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> >>>> Using the RTM_GETLINK dump the vlan map of a given bridge port.
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> This enlarges the RTM_GETLINK response quite a bit.  I think perhaps
> >>> this should be optional, like IFLA_VFINFO_LIST is now.
> >>
> >> Completely agreed.
> >
> > Since most users won't use it, it should be not necessary to include
> > it if the map is blank.
> >
> 
> Response is included only for AF_BRIDGE calls (proably used by STP 
> implementation) and only when vlan filtering is configured.
> 
> I do see the point though and can add a filter for this.

I thought the per-AF stuff was included by default (or at least what
most clients ask for).  If not then this is probably fine.
IFLA_VFINFO_LIST was causing glibc's queries to fail and that must be
avoided.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html