netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/6] stricter netlink validation

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Date:   Thu, 4 Apr 2019 20:44:25 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] stricter netlink validation

On 4/4/19 11:28 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> Date: Thu,  4 Apr 2019 08:54:02 +0200
> 
>> Here's a version that has passed build testing ;-)
> 
> :-)
> 
> I really like the approach taken here, and done in such a way that
> new attributes added get strict checking by default.
> 
> I'll let David Ahern et al. have time to review this.
> 

Hit a compile issue right out of the gate:

$ make O=kbuild/perf -j 24 -s
/home/dsa/kernel-2.git/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c: In function
‘validate_and_copy_check_pkt_len’:
/home/dsa/kernel-2.git/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c:2887:8: error:
implicit declaration of function ‘nla_parse_deprecated_strict’
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  err = nla_parse_deprecated_strict(a, OVS_CHECK_PKT_LEN_ATTR_MAX,
        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You should do an allmodconfig build to check for any others. I disabled
ovs to continue.