Commit e75fa073 authored Oct 08, 2018 by David Ahern Committed by David S. Miller Oct 10, 2018

rtnetlink: Update comment in rtnl_stats_dump regarding strict data checking



The NLM_F_DUMP_PROPER_HDR netlink flag was replaced by a setsockopt.
Update the comment in rtnl_stats_dump.

Fixes: 841891ec ("rtnetlink: Update rtnl_stats_dump for strict data checking")
Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 4565d7e5

net/core/rtnetlink.c

+2 −2

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		@@ -4777,8 +4777,8 @@ static int rtnl_stats_dump(struct sk_buff skb, struct netlink_callback cb)

		ifsm = nlmsg_data(cb->nlh);

		/* only requests using NLM_F_DUMP_PROPER_HDR can pass data to
		* influence the dump. The legacy exception is filter_mask.
		/* only requests using strict checks can pass data to influence
		* the dump. The legacy exception is filter_mask.
		*/
		if (cb->strict_check) {
		if (ifsm->pad1 \|\| ifsm->pad2 \|\| ifsm->ifindex) {