On 4/26/19 6:07 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > Here's a respin, with the following changes: > * change message when rejecting unknown attribute types (David Ahern) > * drop nl80211 patch - I'll apply it separately > * remove NL_VALIDATE_POLICY - we have a lot of calls to nla_parse() > that really should be without a policy as it has previously been > validated - need to find a good way to handle this later > * include the correct generic netlink change (d'oh, sorry) > > johannes > >
I agree with this set and will help moving forward. As I recall it requires follow up patches for each policy to set strict_start_type opting in to the strict checking. With that in place new userspace on old kernels will get a failure trying to configure a feature the old kernel does not recognize. For the series: Acked-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
