netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: limit recursion depth in policy validation

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Message-Id: <20190430.093641.235792028903530007.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:36:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: limit recursion depth in policy validation

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 08:58:10 +0200

> If you prefer to have the safeguard in net even if it shouldn't be
> needed now, let me know and I'll make a version that applies there, but
> note that will invariably cause conflicts with all the other changes in
> lib/nlattr.c.

No, that's not necessary.

Thanks for asking.