netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: strset: account for nesting in reply size

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:32:48 -0700
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: strset: account for nesting in reply
 size

On Sat, 2021-06-19 at 01:37 +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 03:55:02PM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
> > 
> > The cited patch revealed a bug in strset reply size where the
> > calculation didn't include the 1st nla_nest_start(), a size of 4
> > Bytes in
> > strset_fill_reply().
> > 
> > To fix the issue we account for the missing nla_nest 4Bytes by
> > reporting
> > them in strset_reply_size()
> > 
> > Before this patch issuing "ethtool -k" command will produce the
> > following call trace:
[...]
> 
> Out of the three fixes, personally I liked most the one which applied
> nla_total_len() to calculated length of the nest contents as it IMHO
> reflects the message structure best; but adding nla_total_size(0)
> also
> provides the same result so either does the trick.
> 
> Michal

will go with the net fix, thanks for taking a look !