netdev - [PATCH net-next v1 03/11] wireguard: netlink: enable strict genetlink validation

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Message-ID: <20251029205123.286115-4-ast@fiberby.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:51:11 +0000
From: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@...erby.net>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@...erby.net>,
	Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	wireguard@...ts.zx2c4.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v1 03/11] wireguard: netlink: enable strict genetlink validation

Wireguard is a modern enough genetlink family, that it doesn't
need resv_start_op. It already had policies in place when it was
first merged, it has also never used the reserved field, or other
things toggled by resv_start_op.

wireguard-tools have always used zero initialized memory, and
have never touched the reserved field, neither have any other
clients I have checked. Closed-source clients are much more
likely to use the embeddedable library from wireguard-tools,
than a DIY implementation using uninitialized memory.

Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@...erby.net>
---
 drivers/net/wireguard/netlink.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireguard/netlink.c b/drivers/net/wireguard/netlink.c
index d36e94220d2c3..024d4a6cc74c6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireguard/netlink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireguard/netlink.c
@@ -631,7 +631,6 @@ static const struct genl_ops genl_ops[] = {
 static struct genl_family genl_family __ro_after_init = {
 	.ops = genl_ops,
 	.n_ops = ARRAY_SIZE(genl_ops),
-	.resv_start_op = WG_CMD_SET_DEVICE + 1,
 	.name = WG_GENL_NAME,
 	.version = WG_GENL_VERSION,
 	.maxattr = WGDEVICE_A_MAX,
-- 
2.51.0