Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] rtnetlink: promote IFLA_VF_STATS to same level as IFLA_VF_INFO

2021-01-26 Thread Edwin Peer
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 6:01 PM Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > Since changing the hierarchy does constitute an ABI change, it must > > be explicitly requested via RTEXT_FILTER_VF_SEPARATE_STATS. Otherwise, > > the old location is maintained for compatibility. > > We don't want any additions to the VF

Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] rtnetlink: promote IFLA_VF_STATS to same level as IFLA_VF_INFO

2021-01-25 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:53:21 -0800 Edwin Peer wrote: > Separating the VF stats out of IFLA_VF_INFO appears to be the least > impact way of resolving the nlattr overflow bug in IFLA_VFINFO_LIST. > > Since changing the hierarchy does constitute an ABI change, it must > be explicitly requested via RT

[PATCH net-next 4/4] rtnetlink: promote IFLA_VF_STATS to same level as IFLA_VF_INFO

2021-01-22 Thread Edwin Peer
Separating the VF stats out of IFLA_VF_INFO appears to be the least impact way of resolving the nlattr overflow bug in IFLA_VFINFO_LIST. Since changing the hierarchy does constitute an ABI change, it must be explicitly requested via RTEXT_FILTER_VF_SEPARATE_STATS. Otherwise, the old location is ma