netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] bridge: mcast: Move validation to a policy

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Message-ID: <b5bc02cc-8c81-a4a3-8850-40cb6a4a0600@blackwall.org>
Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2023 09:23:14 +0100
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, roopa@...dia.com, petrm@...dia.com,
        mlxsw@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] bridge: mcast: Move validation to a policy

On 2/9/23 09:18, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> Future patches are going to move parts of the bridge MDB code to the
> common rtnetlink code in preparation for VXLAN MDB support. To
> facilitate code sharing between both drivers, move the validation of the
> top level attributes in RTM_{NEW,DEL}MDB messages to a policy that will
> eventually be moved to the rtnetlink code.
> 
> Use 'NLA_NESTED' for 'MDBA_SET_ENTRY_ATTRS' instead of
> NLA_POLICY_NESTED() as this attribute is going to be validated using
> different policies in the underlying drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
> ---
>   net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>   1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 


Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>