netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/20] rtnetlink: Add support for rigid checking of data in dump request

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Message-Id: <20181005.145801.2273793268534627951.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:58:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...il.com
Cc:     dsahern@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, christian@...uner.io,
        jbenc@...hat.com, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/20] rtnetlink: Add support for rigid
 checking of data in dump request

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:18:11 -0600

> One thing I missed in the rfc and v1 versions is strict attribute
> parsing -- ie., there should be nothing remaining after nla_parse is
> done. I have a new patch that adds an nlmsg_parse_strict and
> nla_parse_strict that returns -EINVAL (with extack filled in) if that
> happens. The new patch pushes the set over 20.
> 
> I can peel off the first 3 patches from this set which add extack to the
> dumps and down to nlmsg_parse and send those separately if preferred.

Don't worry about it, just send the whole thing.

My rule with patch series sizes is "be reasonable", rather than a
strict number requirement.

Thanks.