netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] netdev: support dumping a single netdev in qstats

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Message-ID: <CANn89iJOGunkDHFOHjZHQKm9aDJ1S2PWgiMb_FPfpWfiW7cfyA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:02:53 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	pabeni@...hat.com, shuah@...nel.org, sdf@...gle.com, 
	amritha.nambiar@...el.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] netdev: support dumping a single netdev in qstats

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 3:48 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:32:24 -0600 David Ahern wrote:
> > On 4/21/24 1:17 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > I wonder if NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED should not be reported to user space ?
> >
> > good point. We do set that flag for other dumps when a filter has been
> > used to limit data returned.
>
> That flag appears to be a, hm, historic workaround?
> If I was to guess what the motivation was I'd say that it's because
> "old school netlink" didn't reject unknown attributes. And you wanted
> to know whether the kernel did the filtering or you have to filter
> again in user space? Am I close? :)
>
> The flag is mostly used in the IP stack, I'd rather try to deprecate
> it than propagate it to new genetlink families which do full input
> validation, rendering the flag 100% unnecessary.

SGTM

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>