netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] netlink: nested policy validation

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Message-ID: <1538036562.14416.23.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:22:42 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] netlink: nested policy validation

On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 10:21 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:15:29 +0200
> 
> > This adds nested policy validation, which lets you specify the
> > nested attribute type, e.g. NLA_NESTED with sub-policy, or the
> > new NLA_NESTED_ARRAY with sub-sub-policy.
> > 
> > 
> > Changes in v2:
> >  * move setting the bad attr pointer/message into validate_nla()
> >  * remove the recursion patch since that's no longer needed
> >  * simply skip the generic bad attr pointer/message setting in
> >    case of nested nla_validate() failing since that could fail
> >    only due to validate_nla() failing inside, which already sets
> >    the extack information
> > 
> > Changes in v3:
> >  * fix NLA_REJECT to have an error message if none is in policy
> 
> Looks great Johannes, series applied.

Sorry to nag, but I see patches that you replied to later than this in
the tree, but not this.

Or did you see something wrong with this later and dropped it?

johannes