netdev - Re: [PATCH ethtool 02/21] netlink: fix nest type grouping in parser

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Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 16:28:58 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     John Linville <linville@...driver.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool 02/21] netlink: fix nest type grouping in parser

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 01:21:17AM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> Even if we are only interested in one nested attribute when using
> PARSER_GROUP_NEST group type, the temporary buffer must contain proper
> netlink header and have pointer to it and payload set up correctly for
> libmnl composition functions to be able to track current message size.
> 
> Fixes: 9ee9d9517542 ("netlink: add basic command line parsing helpers")
> Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>

Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew