Re: [PATCH net-next v3] rtnetlink: cap IFLA_VFINFO_LIST at a documented number of VFs

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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Sat,  1 Aug 2026 14:49:44 +0300 you wrote:
> rtnl_fill_vf() emits one IFLA_VF_INFO per VF into the IFLA_VFINFO_LIST
> nest and closes it with nla_nest_end(), which stores the accumulated
> length into nla_len. That field is a u16, so a nest larger than 65535
> bytes is written truncated modulo 65536. The list dates back to commit
> c02db8c6290b ("rtnetlink: make SR-IOV VF interface symmetric") in 2010
> and has never been able to describe an arbitrary number of VFs; nothing
> regressed, the encoding simply cannot represent it.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v3] rtnetlink: cap IFLA_VFINFO_LIST at a documented number of VFs
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/51e15308c6ae

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