Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 net-next 03/25] netlink: introduce NLM_F_DUMP_PROPER_HDR flag

From: Jiri Benc <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 18:30:18 +0200

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 netlink flag for consistency with NLM_F_DUMP_INTR and
> NLM_F_DUMP_FILTERED. Both are netlink flags. This patch set fixes only
> what is broken -- dumps.

When we're introducing better input checking in netlink (which is a
good thing!), it would be good to do it consistently and have it
generic across all operations.

 Jiri