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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] netlink: add validation of NLA_F_NESTED flag
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 07:40:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b11f899b-bfbf-7205-7b96-b8a974447662@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190502131416.GE21672@unicorn.suse.cz>

On 5/2/19 7:14 AM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
>>> @@ -1132,6 +1136,10 @@ static inline int nla_parse_nested(struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype,
>>>  				   const struct nla_policy *policy,
>>>  				   struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
>>>  {
>>> +	if (!(nla->nla_type & NLA_F_NESTED)) {
>>> +		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, nla, "nested attribute expected");
>>
>> Maybe reword that to say "NLA_F_NESTED is missing" or so? The "nested
>> attribute expected" could result in a lot of headscratching (without
>> looking at the code) because it looks nested if you do nla_nest_start()
>> etc.
> 
> How about "NLA_F_NESTED is missing" and "NLA_F_NESTED not expected"?
> 

That is much better to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-02 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-02 12:48 [PATCH net-next 0/3] netlink: strict attribute checking follow-up Michal Kubecek
2019-05-02 12:48 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] genetlink: do not validate dump requests if there is no policy Michal Kubecek
2019-05-02 12:51   ` Johannes Berg
2019-05-02 13:10     ` Michal Kubecek
2019-05-02 13:13       ` Johannes Berg
2019-05-02 13:32         ` Michal Kubecek
2019-05-02 13:36           ` David Ahern
2019-05-02 15:28             ` Johannes Berg
2019-05-02 12:48 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] netlink: add validation of NLA_F_NESTED flag Michal Kubecek
2019-05-02 12:54   ` Johannes Berg
2019-05-02 13:14     ` Michal Kubecek
2019-05-02 13:40       ` David Ahern [this message]
2019-05-02 15:07       ` Johannes Berg
2019-05-02 12:48 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] netlink: set bad attribute also on maxtype check Michal Kubecek
2019-05-02 12:52   ` Johannes Berg
2019-05-02 13:37   ` David Ahern

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