Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 00/23] rtnetlink: Add support for rigid checking of data in dump request

2018-10-08 Thread David Miller
From: Christian Brauner Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 13:04:13 +0200 > On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:16:21PM -0700, David Ahern wrote: >> From: David Ahern >> >> There are many use cases where a user wants to influence what is >> returned in a dump for some rtnetlink command: one is wanting data >> for a

Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 00/23] rtnetlink: Add support for rigid checking of data in dump request

2018-10-08 Thread Christian Brauner
On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:16:21PM -0700, David Ahern wrote: > From: David Ahern > > There are many use cases where a user wants to influence what is > returned in a dump for some rtnetlink command: one is wanting data > for a different namespace than the one the request is received and >

[PATCH v2 net-next 00/23] rtnetlink: Add support for rigid checking of data in dump request

2018-10-07 Thread David Ahern
From: David Ahern There are many use cases where a user wants to influence what is returned in a dump for some rtnetlink command: one is wanting data for a different namespace than the one the request is received and another is limiting the amount of data returned in the dump to a specific set