On 10/2/18 10:30 AM, Jiri Benc wrote:
> 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
> b
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 08:55:19 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> You want take issue with a name suggest a different one.
I don't have a strong opinion on this. STRICT_HDR? HDR_CHECKED?
VERIFY_HDR? If you feel that your proposal is better, I don't mind.
Thanks,
Jiri
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 netlin
On 10/2/18 5:27 AM, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 13:18:32 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
>> I didn't find this in the linked thread.
>
> Maybe it was suggested in another thread or in person on a conference,
> I can't remember, it's too long ago, sorry.
>
>> What I find interesting and
On 10/2/18 5:06 AM, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:28:29 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
>> Add a new flag, NLM_F_DUMP_PROPER_HDR, for userspace to indicate to the
>> kernel that it believes it is sending the right header struct for the
>> dump message type (ifinfomsg, ifaddrmsg, rtmsg, fib_ru
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 13:18:32 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> I didn't find this in the linked thread.
Maybe it was suggested in another thread or in person on a conference,
I can't remember, it's too long ago, sorry.
> What I find interesting and convincing is one of Dave's points:
>
> "I'm beg
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 01:06:14PM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:28:29 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> > Add a new flag, NLM_F_DUMP_PROPER_HDR, for userspace to indicate to the
> > kernel that it believes it is sending the right header struct for the
> > dump message type (ifinfomsg,
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:28:29 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> Add a new flag, NLM_F_DUMP_PROPER_HDR, for userspace to indicate to the
> kernel that it believes it is sending the right header struct for the
> dump message type (ifinfomsg, ifaddrmsg, rtmsg, fib_rule_hdr, ...).
Why is this limited to dump
From: David Ahern
Add a new flag, NLM_F_DUMP_PROPER_HDR, for userspace to indicate to the
kernel that it believes it is sending the right header struct for the
dump message type (ifinfomsg, ifaddrmsg, rtmsg, fib_rule_hdr, ...).
Setting the flag in the netlink message header indicates to the kern
