netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove the unnecessary strict_start

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Message-Id: <20191121.114631.995877327927284264.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:46:31 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, simon.horman@...ronome.com,
        jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove the unnecessary strict_start_type
 in some policies

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:08:38 +0800

> ct_policy and mpls_policy are parsed with nla_parse_nested(), which
> does NL_VALIDATE_STRICT validation, strict_start_type is not needed
> to set as it is actually trying to make some attributes parsed with
> NL_VALIDATE_STRICT.
> 
> This patch is to remove it, and do the same on rtm_nh_policy which
> is parsed by nlmsg_parse().
> 
> Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied.