netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] netlink: extended ACK reporting

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Message-ID: <20170408184008.GB1900@nanopsycho>
Date:   Sat, 8 Apr 2017 20:40:08 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        pablo@...filter.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>,
        David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] netlink: extended ACK reporting

Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 08:37:01PM CEST, johannes@...solutions.net wrote:
>On Sat, 2017-04-08 at 20:34 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> nla_total_size(sizeof(u32));
>> > +			if (extack &&
>> > +			    (extack->missing_attr || extack-
>> > >bad_attr))
>> 
>> Attr could be 0, right? I know that on the most of the places 0 is
>> UNSPEC, but I'm pretty sure not everywhere.
>
>Yeah, I guess we can't show a missing attribute of 0 now - bad_attr is
>a pointer so no problem there.
>
>I think I'll leave it like this - if anyone really wants to say
>"attribute 0 is missing" then we can add a flag later... The UAPI does
>take this into account by not including the attribute at all if the
>data is invalid, so 0 in the userspace API can be done

It a known issue, should be fixed right now. We are in no hurry. This
waited +15 years to be done, no harm in couple more days.


Also, could you please attach a patch to iproute2 for example which
would make use of this. I just want to make sure it clicks.

Thanks!