netdev - Re: [RFC] nl80211: use policy range validation where applicable

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Message-ID: <1537992583.28767.24.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 22:09:43 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] nl80211: use policy range validation where applicable

On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 22:07 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> 
> Many range checks can be done in the policy, move them
> there. A few in mesh are added in the code (taken out of
> the macros) because they don't fit into the s16 range in
> the policy validation.

Forgot to say - this saves 550 bytes of .text on x86-64 for me.

johannes