From: "Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen" <ast@fiberby.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen" <ast@fiberby.net>,
"Chia-Yu Chang" <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>,
"Chuck Lever" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
"Donald Hunter" <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 4/7] netlink: specs: nl80211: set ignore-index on indexed-arrays
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:26:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251022182701.250897-5-ast@fiberby.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251022182701.250897-1-ast@fiberby.net>
The indexes in nl80211 indexed-arrays have no special meaning,
they are just written with an iterator index, which refers to
the order in which they have been packed into the netlink message.
Thus this patch sets ignore-index on these attributes.
Most of these are only used for dumping kernel state, and are
never parsed by the kernel.
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ┃ out/ ┃ input/ ┃ ignore ┃
┃ Attribute ┃ dump ┃ parsed ┃ -index ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━┩
│ NL80211_ATTR_SUPPORTED_COMMANDS │ 1++ │ - │ yes │
│ NL80211_ATTR_INTERFACE_COMBINATIONS │ 1++ │ - │ yes │
│ NL80211_BAND_ATTR_FREQS │ 0++ │ - │ yes │
│ NL80211_BAND_ATTR_RATES │ 0++ │ - │ yes │
│ NL80211_BAND_ATTR_IFTYPE_DATA │ 1++ │ - │ yes │
│ NL80211_FREQUENCY_ATTR_WMM │ 0++ │ - │ yes │
│ NL80211_IFACE_COMB_LIMITS │ 1++ │ - │ yes │
│ NL80211_SAR_ATTR_SPECS │ 1++ │ yes(2) │ yes │
└─────────────────────────────────────┴──────┴────────┴────────┘
Where:
0++) incrementing index starting from 0
1++) incrementing index starting from 1
2) NL80211_SAR_ATTR_SPECS is parsed in nl80211_set_sar_specs(),
which doesn't use the index. Additionally it also has a
NLA_POLICY_NESTED_ARRAY() policy, as defined in commit
1501d13596b9 ("netlink: add nested array policy validation"),
meaning that the index has no meaning, and can be disregarded.
Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@fiberby.net>
---
Documentation/netlink/specs/nl80211.yaml | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nl80211.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nl80211.yaml
index 802097128bdae..b93c612037e26 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nl80211.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nl80211.yaml
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ attribute-sets:
name: supported-commands
type: indexed-array
sub-type: u32
+ ignore-index: true
enum: commands
-
name: frame
@@ -608,6 +609,7 @@ attribute-sets:
name: interface-combinations
type: indexed-array
sub-type: nest
+ ignore-index: true
nested-attributes: if-combination-attributes
-
name: software-iftypes
@@ -1307,11 +1309,13 @@ attribute-sets:
name: freqs
type: indexed-array
sub-type: nest
+ ignore-index: true
nested-attributes: frequency-attrs
-
name: rates
type: indexed-array
sub-type: nest
+ ignore-index: true
nested-attributes: bitrate-attrs
-
name: ht-mcs-set
@@ -1335,6 +1339,7 @@ attribute-sets:
name: iftype-data
type: indexed-array
sub-type: nest
+ ignore-index: true
nested-attributes: iftype-data-attrs
-
name: edmg-channels
@@ -1418,6 +1423,7 @@ attribute-sets:
name: wmm
type: indexed-array
sub-type: nest
+ ignore-index: true
nested-attributes: wmm-attrs
-
name: no-he
@@ -1474,6 +1480,7 @@ attribute-sets:
name: limits
type: indexed-array
sub-type: nest
+ ignore-index: true
nested-attributes: iface-limit-attributes
-
name: maxnum
@@ -1613,6 +1620,7 @@ attribute-sets:
name: specs
type: indexed-array
sub-type: nest
+ ignore-index: true
nested-attributes: sar-specs
-
name: sar-specs
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-22 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-22 18:26 [PATCH net-next 0/7] ynl: add ignore-index flag for indexed-array Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-22 18:26 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] netlink: specs: " Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-22 18:26 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] tools: ynl: support ignore-index in indexed-array decoding Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-22 18:26 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] tools: ynl: support ignore-index in indexed-array encoding Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-22 18:26 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen [this message]
2025-10-22 18:26 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] netlink: specs: nlctrl: set ignore-index on indexed-arrays Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-22 18:26 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] netlink: specs: rt-link: " Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-22 18:27 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] netlink: specs: tc: " Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-23 1:45 ` [PATCH net-next 0/7] ynl: add ignore-index flag for indexed-array Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-23 18:37 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-24 0:03 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-24 19:19 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-24 23:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
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