From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 15:18:11 -0600
> One thing I missed in the rfc and v1 versions is strict attribute > parsing -- ie., there should be nothing remaining after nla_parse is > done. I have a new patch that adds an nlmsg_parse_strict and > nla_parse_strict that returns -EINVAL (with extack filled in) if that > happens. The new patch pushes the set over 20. > > I can peel off the first 3 patches from this set which add extack to the > dumps and down to nlmsg_parse and send those separately if preferred. Don't worry about it, just send the whole thing. My rule with patch series sizes is "be reasonable", rather than a strict number requirement. Thanks.