netdev - Re: [patch net] sched: act: count in the size of action flags bitfield

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Date:   Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:11:59 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org, jhs@...atatu.com,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, vladbu@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net] sched: act: count in the size of action flags
 bitfield

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:54:12 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> The put of the flags was added by the commit referenced in fixes tag,
> however the size of the message was not extended accordingly.
> 
> Fix this by adding size of the flags bitfield to the message size.
> 
> Fixes: e38226786022 ("net: sched: update action implementations to support flags")
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

Applied and queued up for v5.5 -stable, thanks Jiri.

This is a common mistake which is made when adding new attributes, so it would
be nice if there were a programmatic way to make sure these adjustments never
get forgotten.