On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 08:57:24 -0600, David Ahern wrote: > You can when you introduce a new option or a new flag that is required > to get new behavior like kernel side filtering.
Yes. That was what I tried with the patchset a few years back. It would be nice to revive the effort. > I chose a netlink flag for consistency with NLM_F_DUMP_INTR and > NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED. Both are netlink flags. This patch set fixes only > what is broken -- dumps. When we're introducing better input checking in netlink (which is a good thing!), it would be good to do it consistently and have it generic across all operations. Jiri