netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bridge: mdb: add support for extended attributes

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Message-Id: <20160218.153740.101157132273397459.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:37:40 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	razor@...ckwall.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bridge: mdb: add support for extended
 attributes

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:46:52 +0100

> Note that the reason we can't simply add an attribute after
> MDBA_MDB_ENTRY_INFO is that current users (e.g. iproute2) walk over
> the attribute list directly without checking for the attribute type.

Honestly that sounds like a bug in iproute2 to me...