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

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov
Date: Thu Oct 08 2020 - 06:18:13 EST


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 <henrik.bjoernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 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 <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

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.