2020-10-07 14:53:33

by Nikolay Aleksandrov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bridge: Netlink interface fix.

On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 12:07 +0000, Henrik Bjoernlund wrote:
> This commit is correcting NETLINK br_fill_ifinfo() to be able to
> handle 'filter_mask' with multiple flags asserted.
>
> Fixes: 36a8e8e265420 ("bridge: Extend br_fill_ifinfo to return MPR status")
>
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Bjoernlund <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Horatiu Vultur <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Horatiu Vultur <[email protected]>
> ---
> net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 26 +++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>

The patch looks good, please don't separate the Fixes tag from the others.
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>


2020-10-08 11:27:30

by Nikolay Aleksandrov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bridge: Netlink interface fix.

On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 14:49 +0000, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 12:07 +0000, Henrik Bjoernlund wrote:
> > This commit is correcting NETLINK br_fill_ifinfo() to be able to
> > handle 'filter_mask' with multiple flags asserted.
> >
> > Fixes: 36a8e8e265420 ("bridge: Extend br_fill_ifinfo to return MPR status")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Henrik Bjoernlund <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Horatiu Vultur <[email protected]>
> > Suggested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
> > Tested-by: Horatiu Vultur <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 26 +++++++++++---------------
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
>
> The patch looks good, please don't separate the Fixes tag from the others.
> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
>

TBH, this does change a user facing api (the attribute nesting), but I think
in this case it's acceptable due to the format being wrong and MRP being new, so
I doubt anyone is yet dumping it mixed with vlan filter_mask and checking for
two identical attributes, i.e. in the old/broken case parsing the attributes
into a table would hide one of them and you'd have to walk over all attributes
to catch that.