netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] rtnetlink: Move nesting cancellation rollback to proper function

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:10:09 +0300
From: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] rtnetlink: Move nesting cancellation rollback
 to proper function

On 18/07/2023 13:59, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 2023-07-16 at 10:24 +0300, Gal Pressman wrote:
>> Make rtnl_fill_vf() cancel the vfinfo attribute on error instead of the
>> inner rtnl_fill_vfinfo(), as it is the function that starts it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
> 
> This looks like -net material to me (except for the missing fixes tag).
> Any special reason to target net-next? 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Paolo
> 

Hi Paolo,
This doesn't fix any real bug, it's a cleanup, hence the net-next targeting.