From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mst@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.r.fastabend@intel.com,
kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] macvlan: validate flags
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:03:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130805.110321.179491711331112454.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130805152554.GA3592@redhat.com>
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:25:54 +0300
> commit df8ef8f3aaa6692970a436204c4429210addb23a
> macvlan: add FDB bridge ops and macvlan flags
> added a flags field to macvlan, which can be
> controlled from userspace.
> The idea is to make the interface future-proof
> so we can add flags and not new fields.
>
> However, flags value isn't validated, as a result,
> userspace can't detect which flags are supported.
>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-05 18:03 UTC|newest]
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2013-08-05 15:25 [PATCH v3] macvlan: validate flags Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-05 18:03 ` David Miller [this message]
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