From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
To: Taylor Bates <tmbates12@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] netlink: specs: fix duplicate if/then keys in netlink-raw schema
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:35:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ecesp96s.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260914-ynl-robustness-v2-1-c6125003b21e@gmail.com>
Taylor Bates <tmbates12@gmail.com> writes:
> Currently netlink-raw.yaml contains two if keys and two then keys in a
> single mapping that enforces a "len" for "pad" members and a "len" or
> "struct" for binary members.
>
> During validation PyYAML resolves duplicate keys last-wins, so only the
> binary rule survives. Pad has not been validated since commit
> bf08f32c8ced ("tools/net/ynl: Add support for nested structs") added
> the second if/then pair in January 2024.
>
> None of the current specs violate this rule, but this validation should
> not be parser dependent and unspecified. Strict YAML validators such as
> Red Hat's VS Code YAML extension and Adrien Verge's yamllint will
> reject the netlink-raw.yaml schema:
>
> Command:
> $ yamllint Documentation/netlink/netlink-raw.yaml
>
> Output:
> 185:13 error duplication of key "if" in mapping (key-duplicates)
> 189:13 error duplication of key "then" in mapping (key-duplicates)
>
> The following invalid netlink family spec will pass validation in the
> current ynl tooling:
>
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)
> ---
> name: minimal-raw
> doc: Minimal netlink-raw family for schema validation testing.
> protocol: netlink-raw
> protonum: 0
>
> definitions:
> -
> name: test-struct
> type: struct
> members:
> -
> name: reserved
> type: pad
> # len intentionally omitted
>
> attribute-sets: []
>
> operations:
> list: []
>
> Signed-off-by: Taylor Bates <tmbates12@gmail.com>
Good catch. We have a lint check on the specs but not the schemas. Maybe
need to add that.
Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 1:53 Taylor Bates
2026-09-15 3:01 ` Hangbin Liu
2026-09-17 8:35 ` Donald Hunter [this message]
2026-09-17 22:05 ` tmbates12
2026-09-17 14:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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