netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Set strict_start

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Date:   Wed, 22 May 2019 17:55:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Set strict_start_type for routes and
 rules

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 12:07:43 -0700

> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> 
> New userspace on an older kernel can send unknown and unsupported
> attributes resulting in an incompelete config which is almost
> always wrong for routing (few exceptions are passthrough settings
> like the protocol that installed the route).
> 
> Set strict_start_type in the policies for IPv4 and IPv6 routes and
> rules to detect new, unsupported attributes and fail the route add.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Applied.