netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v12 1/4] net netlink: Add new type NLA

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Date:   Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:27:25 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
        horms@...ge.net.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v12 1/4] net netlink: Add new type NLA_BITFIELD32

On 7/30/17 1:59 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On D. Ahern: I dont think we are disagreeing anymore on the need to
> generalize the check. He is saying it should be a helper and I already
> had the validation data; either works. I dont see the gapping need
> to remove the validation data.

I never disagreed on general code; I have always disagreed on validating
values as part of the policy check.