Re: [Bridge] [PATCH net-next v5 4/5] net: bridge: Set strict_start_type for br_policy

[Nikolay Aleksandrov]

On 10/16/23 16:27, Johannes Nixdorf wrote:

Set any new attributes added to br_policy to be parsed strictly, to
prevent userspace from passing garbage.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Nixdorf <jnixdorf-...@avm.de>
---
  net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index 0c3cf6e6dea2..5ad4abfcb7ba 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -1229,6 +1229,8 @@ static size_t br_port_get_slave_size(const struct 
net_device *brdev,
  }

static const struct nla_policy br_policy[IFLA_BR_MAX + 1] = {

+       [IFLA_BR_UNSPEC]        = { .strict_start_type =
+                                   IFLA_BR_FDB_N_LEARNED },
        [IFLA_BR_FORWARD_DELAY] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
        [IFLA_BR_HELLO_TIME]    = { .type = NLA_U32 },
        [IFLA_BR_MAX_AGE]       = { .type = NLA_U32 },

Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <ra...@blackwall.org>