From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] netlink: specs: use exact-len for IPv6 addr
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:24:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231218142425.257a049f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZX1kQQKZ7BdTAG15@Laptop-X1>
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:48:01 +0800 Hangbin Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 06:09:11PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:50:09 +0800 Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > > We should use the exact-len instead of min-len for IPv6 address.
> >
> > It does make sense, but these families historically used min-len..
> > Not sure if it's worth changing this now or we risk regressions.
>
> The addr6 in mptcp.yaml also use exact-len. I don't think the IPv6 address
> could be larger than 16 bytes. So the min-len check looks incorrect.
I understand, what I'm saying is that the nla_policy before we started
using specs was buggy, so we kept the bugginess in the conversion.
But it should be fine, so we can change it now and hope for the best..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-18 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-15 3:50 [PATCH net-next 0/3] ynl-gen: update check format Hangbin Liu
2023-12-15 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] tools: ynl-gen: use correct len for string and binary Hangbin Liu
2023-12-16 2:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-16 8:35 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-12-18 22:22 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-19 10:01 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-12-15 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] tools: ynl-gen: support using defines in checks Hangbin Liu
2023-12-16 2:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-16 8:44 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-12-18 22:23 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-15 3:50 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] netlink: specs: use exact-len for IPv6 addr Hangbin Liu
2023-12-16 2:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-16 8:48 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-12-18 22:24 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-12-18 11:40 ` Davide Caratti
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