Re: [PATCH] macvlan: validate flags

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 06:36:05PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 01-08-2013 14:48, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> >commit df8ef8f3aaa6692970a436204c4429210addb23a
> 
>    Please also specify that commit's summary line in parens.
> This is the only way to uniquely identify the commit, and it's the
> requirement that came originally from Linus AFAIK.

Ouch, no idea why do I keep making this mistake.
Will do, thanks.

> >added a flags field to macvlan, which can be
> >controlled from userspace.
> >The idea is to make the interface future-proof
> >so we can add flags and not new fields.
> 
> >However, flags value isn't validated, as a result,
> >userspace can't detect which flags are supported.
> 
> >Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >CC: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> WBR, Sergei
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