On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:25:44 +0100 Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com> wrote:
> commit 28033ae4e0f ("net: netlink: Update attr validation to require > exact length for some types") introduces a stricter control on attributes > of type NLA_U* and NLA_S*. > > Since the tipc tool is sending a family attribute of u32 instead of as > expected u16 the tool is now effectively broken. > > We fix this by changing the type of the said attribute. > > Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com> Applied. I noticed devlink has the same problem! devlink/mnlg.c: mnl_attr_put_u32(nlh, CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_ID, nlg->id);