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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] genetlink: do not parse attributes for families with zero maxattr
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:16:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191011091652.GH2901@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191011084544.91E73E378C@unicorn.suse.cz>

Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 09:40:09AM CEST, mkubecek@suse.cz wrote:
>Commit c10e6cf85e7d ("net: genetlink: push attrbuf allocation and parsing
>to a separate function") moved attribute buffer allocation and attribute
>parsing from genl_family_rcv_msg_doit() into a separate function
>genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse() which, unlike the previous code, calls
>__nlmsg_parse() even if family->maxattr is 0 (i.e. the family does its own
>parsing). The parser error is ignored and does not propagate out of
>genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse() but an error message ("Unknown attribute
>type") is set in extack and if further processing generates no error or
>warning, it stays there and is interpreted as a warning by userspace.
>
>Dumpit requests are not affected as genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit() bypasses
>the call of genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse() if family->maxattr is zero.
>Move this logic inside genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse() so that we don't
>have to handle it in each caller.
>
>v3: put the check inside genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse()
>v2: adjust also argument of genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_free()
>
>Fixes: c10e6cf85e7d ("net: genetlink: push attrbuf allocation and parsing to a separate function")
>Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-11  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-11  7:40 [PATCH net-next v3] genetlink: do not parse attributes for families with zero maxattr Michal Kubecek
2019-10-11  9:16 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2019-10-13  2:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-10-13 18:20 ` David Miller

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