netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] lwtunnel: add ip and ip6 options setting and dumping

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Date:   Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:18:48 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] lwtunnel: add ip and ip6 options setting and
 dumping

On 11/7/19 3:50 AM, Xin Long wrote:
> Now think about it again, nla_parse_nested() should always be used on
> new options, should I post a fix for it? since no code to access this
> from userspace yet.

please do. All new options should use strict parsing from the beginning.
And you should be able to set LWTUNNEL_IP_OPT_GENEVE_UNSPEC to
.strict_start_type = LWTUNNEL_IP_OPT_GENEVE_UNSPEC + 1 in the policy so
that new command using new option on an old kernel throws an error.