From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
To: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson•com>
Cc: <davem@davemloft•net>, <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
<mohan.krishna.ghanta.krishnamurthy@ericsson•com>,
<tung.q.nguyen@dektech•com.au>, <hoang.h.le@dektech•com.au>,
<canh.d.luu@dektech•com.au>, <ying.xue@windriver•com>,
<tipc-discussion@lists•sourceforge.net>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox•com>
Subject: Re: [iproute2 1/1] tipc: change family attribute from u32 to u16
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:00:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171116160047.20ee5850@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510763144-24668-1-git-send-email-jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:25:44 +0100
Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson•com> wrote:
> commit 28033ae4e0f ("net: netlink: Update attr validation to require
> exact length for some types") introduces a stricter control on attributes
> of type NLA_U* and NLA_S*.
>
> Since the tipc tool is sending a family attribute of u32 instead of as
> expected u16 the tool is now effectively broken.
>
> We fix this by changing the type of the said attribute.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson•com>
Applied.
I noticed devlink has the same problem!
devlink/mnlg.c: mnl_attr_put_u32(nlh, CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_ID, nlg->id);
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2017-11-15 16:25 [iproute2 1/1] tipc: change family attribute from u32 to u16 Jon Maloy
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