From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen" <ast@fiberby.net>,
"Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com" <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/11] tools: ynl-gen: don't validate nested array attribute types
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:55:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96db85326505785727bcfe45b99ae12fdbfb548a.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d612ce20-ae4a-4f6d-9d1b-a3d56f3d10a9@fiberby.net>
On Sat, 2025-09-06 at 15:10 +0000, Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
>
> For the other families, I don't know how well defined it is, Johannes have
> stated that nl80211 doesn't care which types are used, but I have no idea
> how consistent clients have abused that statement to send random data,
> or do they all just send zeros?
I think most clients probably send incrementing numbers (1, 2, 3, ...),
but maybe some start at 0, some sometimes might use band numbers and
thus have sparse values, etc.
But as I just wrote, I'm not really sure it should be used at all.
joahnnes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-08 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-04 22:01 [PATCH net-next 00/11] tools: ynl: prepare for wireguard Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 01/11] tools: ynl-gen: allow overriding name-prefix for constants Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:36 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-06 0:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-06 0:15 ` Jacob Keller
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 02/11] tools: ynl-gen: generate nested array policies Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:37 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-06 0:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-06 0:19 ` Jacob Keller
2025-09-06 14:13 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-08 7:54 ` Johannes Berg
2025-09-08 9:08 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-08 13:22 ` Johannes Berg
2025-09-09 23:02 ` Jacob Keller
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 03/11] tools: ynl-gen: add sub-type check Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:37 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-06 0:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-06 0:20 ` Jacob Keller
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 04/11] tools: ynl-gen: define count iterator in print_dump() Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:37 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-06 0:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-06 0:20 ` Jacob Keller
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 05/11] tools: ynl-gen: define nlattr *array in a block scope Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:44 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-06 0:18 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-06 13:13 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-06 19:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-11 0:01 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-11 0:27 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 06/11] tools: ynl-gen: don't validate nested array attribute types Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-06 0:23 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-06 13:22 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-06 19:29 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-06 0:24 ` Jacob Keller
2025-09-06 15:10 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-08 7:55 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2025-09-10 16:58 ` Jacob Keller
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 07/11] tools: ynl-gen: rename TypeArrayNest to TypeIndexedArray Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:44 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-06 0:25 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 08/11] tools: ynl: move nest packing to a helper function Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:45 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 09/11] tools: ynl: encode indexed-array Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:49 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-05 15:34 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 10/11] tools: ynl: decode hex input Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:51 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-06 0:27 ` Jacob Keller
2025-09-06 14:31 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-08 8:28 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-09 18:10 ` Sabrina Dubroca
2025-09-09 20:18 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-04 22:01 ` [PATCH net-next 11/11] tools: ynl: add ipv4-or-v6 display hint Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-09-05 10:53 ` Donald Hunter
2025-09-06 15:59 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
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