From: David Ahern
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:18:11 -0600
> One thing I missed in the rfc and v1 versions is strict attribute
> parsing -- ie., there should be nothing remaining after nla_parse is
> done. I have a new patch that adds an nlmsg_parse_strict and
> nla_parse_strict that returns -EINVAL
On 10/4/18 3:33 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> From: David Ahern
...
> This patch set addresses the problem by adding a new socket flag,
> NETLINK_DUMP_STRICT_CHK, that userspace can use with setsockopt to
> request strict checking of headers and attributes on dump requests and
> hence unlock the abil
From: David Ahern
There are many use cases where a user wants to influence what is
returned in a dump for some rtnetlink command: one is wanting data
for a different namespace than the one the request is received and
another is limiting the amount of data returned in the dump to a
specific set of
