On 10/5/18 11:48 AM, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:33:46PM -0700, David Ahern wrote: >> From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> >> >> Update inet6_dump_ifinfo for strict data checking. If the flag is >> set, the dump request is expected to have an ifinfomsg struct as >> the header. All elements of the struct are expected to be 0 and no >> attributes can be appended. >> >> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> > This is on top of current net-next? Are your patches ensuring that > ipv6 addr requests don't generate log messages anymore when a wrong > header is passed but the strict socket option is not passed? The context > here doesn't seem to indicate that. :) >
this is an AF_INET6 GETLINK handler. Why? no idea, but I think you are confusing this patch with the GETADDR patch which generated the "netlink: 16 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `ip'." message before this set.
