netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] netlink: add ethernet address policy types

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Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:12:28 +0200
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] netlink: add ethernet address policy types

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 02:02:53PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 13:58 +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> 
> > The code looks correct to me but I have some doubts. Having a special
> > policy for MAC addresses may lead to adding one for IPv4 address (maybe
> > not, we can use NLA_U32 for them), IPv6 addresses and other data types
> > with fixed length. Wouldn't it be more helpful to add a variant of
> > NLA_BINARY (NLA_BINARY_EXACT?) which would fail/warn if attribute length
> > isn't equal to .len?
> 
> Yeah, I guess we could do that, and then
> 
> #define NLA_ETH_ADDR .len = ETH_ALEN, .type = NLA_BINARY_EXACT
> #define NLA_IP6_ADDR .len = 16, .type = NLA_BINARY_EXACT
> 
> or so?

Maybe rather

  #define NLA_ETH_ADDR NLA_BINARY_EXACT, .len = ETH_ALEN
  #define NLA_IP6_ADDR NLA_BINARY_EXACT, .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr)

so that one could write

  { .type = NLA_ETH_ADDR }

as with other types.

Michal Kubecek