netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: properly init chain in case of multiple control actions

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:57:28 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: properly init chain in case of multiple
 control actions

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 1:39 PM Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com> wrote:
> Several TC actions allow users to specify a fallback control action, that
> is usually stored in the action private data. 'goto chain x' never worked
> for that case, because the action handler was never initialized. There is
> only one 'goto_chain' handle per action: extend act_api to disallow 'goto
> chain' specified more than once in a rule. If the fallback control action
> is legally configured, use it to properly initialize the chain.

Why not just validate the fallback action in each action init()?
For example, checking tcfg_paction in tcf_gact_init().

I don't see the need of making it generic.