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Unfortunately, we cannot add strict parsing for all attributes, as that would break existing userspace. We currently warn about it, but that's about all we can do. For new attributes, however, the story is better: nobody is using them, so we can reject bad sizes. Also, for new attributes, we need not accept them when the policy doesn't declare their usage. David Ahern and I went back and forth on how to best encode this, and the best way we found was to have a "boundary type", from which point on new attributes have all possible validation applied, and NLA_UNSPEC is rejected. As we didn't want to add another argument to all functions that get a netlink policy, the workaround is to encode that boundary in the first entry of the policy array (which is for type 0 and thus probably not really valid anyway). I put it into the validation union for the rare possibility that somebody is actually using attribute 0, which would continue to work fine unless they tried to use the extended validation, which isn't likely. We also didn't find any in-tree users with type 0. The reason for setting the "start strict here" attribute is that we never really need to start strict from 0, which is invalid anyway (or in legacy families where that isn't true, it cannot be set to strict), so we can thus reserve the value 0 for "don't do this check" and don't have to add the tag to all policies right now. Thus, policies can now opt in to this validation, which we should do for all existing policies, at least when adding new attributes. Note that entirely *new* policies won't need to set it, as the use of that should be using nla_parse()/nlmsg_parse() etc. which anyway do fully strict validation now, regardless of this. So in effect, this patch only covers the "existing command with new attribute" case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.