Currently, nl80211_get_station() allocates a fixed buffer size using
NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE. In multi-link scenarios - particularly when the
number of links exceeds two - this buffer size is often insufficient
to accommodate complete station statistics, resulting in "no buffer
space available" errors.
To address this, modify nl80211_get_station() to return only
accumulated station statistics and exclude per link stats.
Pass a new flag (link_stats) to nl80211_send_station() to control
the inclusion of per link statistics. This allows retaining
detailed output with per link data in dump commands, while
excluding it from other commands where it is not needed.
This change modifies the handling of per link stats introduced in
commit 82d7f841d9 ("wifi: cfg80211: extend to embed link level
statistics in NL message") to enable them only for
nl80211_dump_station().
Apply the same fix to cfg80211_del_sta_sinfo() by skipping per link
stats to avoid buffer issues. cfg80211_new_sta() doesn't include
stats and is therefore not impacted.
Fixes: 82d7f841d9 ("wifi: cfg80211: extend to embed link level statistics in NL message")
Signed-off-by: Nithyanantham Paramasivam <nithyanantham.paramasivam@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250905124800.1448493-1-nithyanantham.paramasivam@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
NICs are typically configured with total_vfs=0, forcing users to rely
on external tools to enable SR-IOV (a widely used and essential feature).
Add total_vfs parameter to devlink for SR-IOV max VF configurability.
Enables standard kernel tools to manage SR-IOV, addressing the need for
flexible VF configuration.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Dumitrescu <vdumitrescu@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Kamal Heib <kheib@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250907012953.301746-2-saeed@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Currently the ADD_ADDR option is retransmitted with a fixed timeout. This
patch makes the retransmission timeout adaptive by using the maximum RTO
among all the subflows, while still capping it at the configured maximum
value (add_addr_timeout_max). This improves responsiveness when
establishing new subflows.
Specifically:
1. Adds mptcp_adjust_add_addr_timeout() helper to compute the adaptive
timeout.
2. Uses maximum subflow RTO (icsk_rto) when available.
3. Applies exponential backoff based on retransmission count.
4. Maintains fallback to configured max timeout when no RTO data exists.
This slightly changes the behaviour of the MPTCP "add_addr_timeout"
sysctl knob to be used as a maximum instead of a fixed value. But this
is seen as an improvement: the ADD_ADDR might be sent quicker than
before to improve the overall MPTCP connection. Also, the default
value is set to 2 min, which was already way too long, and caused the
ADD_ADDR not to be retransmitted for connections shorter than 2 minutes.
Suggested-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/576
Reviewed-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@openai.com>
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <tanggeliang@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250907-net-next-mptcp-add_addr-retrans-adapt-v1-1-824cc805772b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Users reported a scenario where MPTCP connections that were configured
with SO_KEEPALIVE prior to connect would fail to enable their keepalives
if MTPCP fell back to TCP mode.
After investigating, this affects keepalives for any connection where
sync_socket_options is called on a socket that is in the closed or
listening state. Joins are handled properly. For connects,
sync_socket_options is called when the socket is still in the closed
state. The tcp_set_keepalive() function does not act on sockets that
are closed or listening, hence keepalive is not immediately enabled.
Since the SO_KEEPOPEN flag is absent, it is not enabled later in the
connect sequence via tcp_finish_connect. Setting the keepalive via
sockopt after connect does work, but would not address any subsequently
created flows.
Fortunately, the fix here is straight-forward: set SOCK_KEEPOPEN on the
subflow when calling sync_socket_options.
The fix was valdidated both by using tcpdump to observe keepalive
packets not being sent before the fix, and being sent after the fix. It
was also possible to observe via ss that the keepalive timer was not
enabled on these sockets before the fix, but was enabled afterwards.
Fixes: 1b3e7ede13 ("mptcp: setsockopt: handle SO_KEEPALIVE and SO_PRIORITY")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>
Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aL8dYfPZrwedCIh9@templeofstupid.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
ndo hwtstamp callbacks are expected to run under the per-device ops
lock. Make the lower get/set paths consistent with the rest of ndo
invocations.
Kernel log:
WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 51364 at ./include/net/netdev_lock.h:70 __netdev_update_features+0x4bd/0xe60
...
RIP: 0010:__netdev_update_features+0x4bd/0xe60
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
netdev_update_features+0x1f/0x60
mlx5_hwtstamp_set+0x181/0x290 [mlx5_core]
mlx5e_hwtstamp_set+0x19/0x30 [mlx5_core]
dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib+0x9f/0x220
dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib+0x9f/0x220
dev_set_hwtstamp+0x13d/0x240
dev_ioctl+0x12f/0x4b0
sock_ioctl+0x171/0x370
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x3f7/0x900
? __sys_setsockopt+0x69/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x2e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
...
</TASK>
....
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Note that the mlx5_hwtstamp_set and mlx5e_hwtstamp_set functions shown
in the trace come from an in progress patch converting the legacy ioctl
to ndo_hwtstamp_get/set and are not present in mainline.
Fixes: ffb7ed19ac ("net: hold netdev instance lock during ioctl operations")
Signed-off-by: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250907080821.2353388-1-cjubran@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Eryk reported an issue that I have put under Closes: tag, related to
umem addrs being prematurely produced onto pool's completion queue.
Let us make the skb's destructor responsible for producing all addrs
that given skb used.
Commit from fixes tag introduced the buggy behavior, it was not broken
from day 1, but rather when xsk multi-buffer got introduced.
In order to mitigate performance impact as much as possible, mimic the
linear and frag parts within skb by storing the first address from XSK
descriptor at sk_buff::destructor_arg. For fragments, store them at ::cb
via list. The nodes that will go onto list will be allocated via
kmem_cache. xsk_destruct_skb() will consume address stored at
::destructor_arg and optionally go through list from ::cb, if count of
descriptors associated with this particular skb is bigger than 1.
Previous approach where whole array for storing UMEM addresses from XSK
descriptors was pre-allocated during first fragment processing yielded
too big performance regression for 64b traffic. In current approach
impact is much reduced on my tests and for jumbo frames I observed
traffic being slower by at most 9%.
Magnus suggested to have this way of processing special cased for
XDP_SHARED_UMEM, so we would identify this during bind and set different
hooks for 'backpressure mechanism' on CQ and for skb destructor, but
given that results looked promising on my side I decided to have a
single data path for XSK generic Tx. I suppose other auxiliary stuff
would have to land as well in order to make it work.
Fixes: b7f72a30e9 ("xsk: introduce wrappers and helpers for supporting multi-buffer in Tx path")
Reported-by: Eryk Kubanski <e.kubanski@partner.samsung.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250530103456.53564-1-e.kubanski@partner.samsung.com/
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250904194907.2342177-1-maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
If a GSO skb is sent through a Geneve tunnel and if Geneve options are
added, the split GSO skb might not fit in the MTU anymore and an ICMP
frag needed packet can be generated. In such case the ICMP packet might
go through the segmentation logic (and dropped) later if it reaches a
path were the GSO status is checked and segmentation is required.
This is especially true when an OvS bridge is used with a Geneve tunnel
attached to it. The following set of actions could lead to the ICMP
packet being wrongfully segmented:
1. An skb is constructed by the TCP layer (e.g. gso_type SKB_GSO_TCPV4,
segs >= 2).
2. The skb hits the OvS bridge where Geneve options are added by an OvS
action before being sent through the tunnel.
3. When the skb is xmited in the tunnel, the split skb does not fit
anymore in the MTU and iptunnel_pmtud_build_icmp is called to
generate an ICMP fragmentation needed packet. This is done by reusing
the original (GSO!) skb. The GSO metadata is not cleared.
4. The ICMP packet being sent back hits the OvS bridge again and because
skb_is_gso returns true, it goes through queue_gso_packets...
5. ...where __skb_gso_segment is called. The skb is then dropped.
6. Note that in the above example on re-transmission the skb won't be a
GSO one as it would be segmented (len > MSS) and the ICMP packet
should go through.
Fix this by resetting the GSO information before reusing an skb in
iptunnel_pmtud_build_icmp and iptunnel_pmtud_build_icmpv6.
Fixes: 4cb47a8644 ("tunnels: PMTU discovery support for directly bridged IP packets")
Reported-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250904125351.159740-1-atenart@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Unlike VLAN devices, HSR changes the lower device’s rx_handler, which
prevents the lower device from being attached to another master.
Switch to using netdev_master_upper_dev_link() when setting up the lower
device.
This could improves user experience, since ip link will now display the
HSR device as the master for its ports.
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902065558.360927-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
In the old days, RDS used FMR (Fast Memory Registration) to register
IB MRs to be used by RDMA. A newer and better verbs based
registration/de-registration method called FRWR (Fast Registration
Work Request) was added to RDS by commit 1659185fb4 ("RDS: IB:
Support Fastreg MR (FRMR) memory registration mode") in 2016.
Detection and enablement of FRWR was done in commit 2cb2912d65
("RDS: IB: add Fastreg MR (FRMR) detection support"). But said commit
added an extern bool prefer_frmr, which was not used by said commit -
nor used by later commits. Hence, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Håkon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250905101958.4028647-1-haakon.bugge@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Per family bind/unbind callbacks were introduced to allow families
to track multicast group consumer presence, e.g. to start or stop
producing events depending on listeners.
However, in genl_bind() the bind() callback was invoked even if
capability checks failed and ret was set to -EPERM. This means that
callbacks could run on behalf of unauthorized callers while the
syscall still returned failure to user space.
Fix this by only invoking bind() after "if (ret) break;" check
i.e. after permission checks have succeeded.
Fixes: 3de21a8990 ("genetlink: Add per family bind/unbind callbacks")
Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250905135731.3026965-1-alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
xs_sock_recv_cmsg was failing to call xs_sock_process_cmsg for any cmsg
type other than TLS_RECORD_TYPE_ALERT (TLS_RECORD_TYPE_DATA, and other
values not handled.) Based on my reading of the previous commit
(cc5d5908: sunrpc: fix client side handling of tls alerts), it looks
like only iov_iter_revert should be conditional on TLS_RECORD_TYPE_ALERT
(but that other cmsg types should still call xs_sock_process_cmsg). On
my machine, I was unable to connect (over mtls) to an NFS share hosted
on FreeBSD. With this patch applied, I am able to mount the share again.
Fixes: cc5d59081f ("sunrpc: fix client side handling of tls alerts")
Signed-off-by: Justin Worrell <jworrell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250904211038.12874-3-jworrell@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
It is not necessary to include the header for the struct definition for an
"extern " declaration. It can simply be dropped from the headers to reduce
the number of includes the preprocessor has to process. If needed, it can
be added to the actual C source file.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
The batadv_skb_crc32() helper was shared between Bridge Loop Avoidance and
Network Coding. With the removal of the network coding feature, it is
possible to just move this helper directly to Bridge Loop Avoidance.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
The Network Coding feature, introduced in 2013, is based on the master
thesis "Inter-Flow Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks". It relies on
the assumption that neighboring mesh nodes can reliably overhear each
other's transmissions in promiscuous mode, allowing packets to be combined
to reduce forwarding overhead.
This assumption no longer holds for modern wireless mesh networks, which
are heterogeneous and make overhearing increasingly unreliable. Factors
such as multiple spatial streams, varying data rates, beamforming, and
OFDMA all prevent nodes from consistently overhearing each other. The current
implementation in batman-adv is not able to detect these conditions and would
require a more complex layer beyond its neighbor discovery process to do so.
In addition, the feature has been unmaintained for years and is discouraged
for use. None of the current maintainers have the required test
setup to verify its functionality, and known issues remain in its data
structures (reference counting, RCU usage, and cleanup handling). Its
continued presence also blocks necessary refactoring of the core originator
infrastructure.
Remove this obsolete and unmaintained feature.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Acked-by: Marek Lindner <marek.lindner@mailbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
This version will contain all the (major or even only minor) changes for
Linux 6.18.
The version number isn't a semantic version number with major and minor
information. It is just encoding the year of the expected publishing as
Linux -rc1 and the number of published versions this year (starting at 0).
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Florian Westphal says:
====================
netfilter: updates for net
1) Fix a silly bug in conntrack selftest, busyloop may get optimized to
for (;;), reported by Yi Chen.
2) Introduce new NFTA_DEVICE_PREFIX attribute in nftables netlink api,
re-using old NFTA_DEVICE_NAME led to confusion with different
kernel/userspace versions. This refines the wildcard interface
support added in 6.16 release. From Phil Sutter.
* tag 'nf-25-09-04' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf:
netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce NFTA_DEVICE_PREFIX
selftests: netfilter: fix udpclash tool hang
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250904072548.3267-1-fw@strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Currently, when adding the 6 GHz Band Capabilities element, the channel
list of the wiphy is checked to determine if 6 GHz is supported for a given
virtual interface. However, in a multi-radio wiphy (e.g., one that has
both lower bands and 6 GHz combined), the wiphy advertises support for
all bands. As a result, the 6 GHz Band Capabilities element is incorrectly
included in mesh beacon and station's association request frames of
interfaces operating in lower bands, without verifying whether the
interface is actually operating in a 6 GHz channel.
Fix this by verifying if the interface operates on 6 GHz channel
before adding the element. Note that this check cannot be placed
directly in ieee80211_put_he_6ghz_cap() as the same function is used to
add probe request elements while initiating scan in which case the
interface may not be operating in any band's channel.
Signed-off-by: Ramya Gnanasekar <ramya.gnanasekar@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <rameshkumar.sundaram@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250606104436.326654-1-rameshkumar.sundaram@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The so-called fullmac devices rely on firmware functionality and/or API to
change BSS parameters. Today there are limited drivers supporting the
nl80211 primitive, but they only handle a subset of the bss parameters
passed if any. The mac80211 driver does handle all parameters and stores
their configured values. Some of the BSS parameters were already conditional
by wiphy->features. For these the wiphy->bss_param_support and wiphy->features
fields are silently aligned in wiphy_register(). Maybe better to issue a warning
instead when they are misaligned.
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250817190435.1495094-2-arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Commit 78a7a126dc ("wifi: mac80211: validate SCAN_FLAG_AP in scan request
during MLO") introduced a check that rejects scan requests if any link is
already beaconing. This works fine when all links share the same radio, but
breaks down in multi-radio setups.
Consider a scenario where a 2.4 GHz link is beaconing and a scan is
requested on a 5 GHz link, each backed by a different physical radio. The
current logic still blocks the scan, even though it should be allowed. As a
result, interface bring-up fails unnecessarily in valid configurations.
Fix this by checking whether the scan is being requested on the same
underlying radio as the beaconing link. Only reject the scan if it targets
a link that is already beaconing and the NL80211_FEATURE_AP_SCAN is not
set. This ensures correct behavior in multi-radio environments and avoids
false rejections.
Fixes: 78a7a126dc ("wifi: mac80211: validate SCAN_FLAG_AP in scan request during MLO")
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <aditya.kumar.singh@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250812-fix_scan_ap_flag_requirement_during_mlo-v4-3-383ffb6da213@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
In several instances where cfg80211_get_radio_idx_by_chan() is called,
redundant checks are performed across function — such as verifying if
wiphy->n_radio < 2 or if the returned index is negative. These checks are
unnecessary, as the return value can be directly compared. Moreover, the
function can be safely called even when radio-level properties are not
explicitly advertised since in such case in each call it is going to get
same error value.
Therefore, simplify the usage of this function across all such cases by
removing redundant conditions and relying on the return value directly.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <aditya.kumar.singh@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250812-fix_scan_ap_flag_requirement_during_mlo-v4-2-383ffb6da213@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If a valid radio index is not found, the function returns -ENOENT. If the
channel argument itself is invalid, it returns -EINVAL. However, since the
caller only checks for < 0, the distinction between these error codes is
not utilized much. Also, handling these two distinct error codes throughout
the codebase adds complexity, as both cases must be addressed separately. A
subsequent change aims to simplify this by using a single error code for
all invalid cases, making error handling more consistent and streamlined.
To support this change, update the return value to -EINVAL when a valid
radio index is not found. This is still appropriate because, even if the
channel argument is structurally valid, the absence of a corresponding
radio index implies that the argument is effectively invalid—otherwise, a
valid index would have been found.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <aditya.kumar.singh@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250812-fix_scan_ap_flag_requirement_during_mlo-v4-1-383ffb6da213@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
An S1G TIM PVB is encoded differently compared to a non-s1g TIM PVB.
As the AP dictates which encoding mode it uses, here we only implement
block bitmap encoding. This is the default encoding mode used by
all current vendor implementations.
Additionally, S1G has a maximum AID count of 8192, however we are
limiting the current implementation to 1600. This has no resemblence
to the standard and is purely an implementation detail. The reason for
this is due to the TIM elements maximum length of 255. This allows for,
at most, 25 encoded blocks for a PVB encoded with block bitmap. Support
for the maximum of 8192 AIDs will require an implementation of page slicing
to be added to mac80211.
As a result, we perform extra validation on both the STA and AP side
when receiving an AID as an S1G interface.
Add support for block bitmap encoding for an S1G AP and limit the
maximum AID count to 1600 for the current mac80211 implementations.
Signed-off-by: Lachlan Hodges <lachlan.hodges@morsemicro.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250725132221.258217-2-lachlan.hodges@morsemicro.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
When device_register() return error in atm_register_sysfs(), which can be
triggered by kzalloc fail in device_private_init() or other reasons,
kmemleak reports the following memory leaks:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810182fb80 (size 8):
comm "insmod", pid 504, jiffies 4294852464
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
61 64 75 6d 6d 79 30 00 adummy0.
backtrace (crc 14dfadaf):
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x335/0x450
kvasprintf+0xb3/0x130
kobject_set_name_vargs+0x45/0x120
dev_set_name+0xa9/0xe0
atm_register_sysfs+0xf3/0x220
atm_dev_register+0x40b/0x780
0xffffffffa000b089
do_one_initcall+0x89/0x300
do_init_module+0x27b/0x7d0
load_module+0x54cd/0x5ff0
init_module_from_file+0xe4/0x150
idempotent_init_module+0x32c/0x610
__x64_sys_finit_module+0xbd/0x120
do_syscall_64+0xa8/0x270
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
When device_create_file() return error in atm_register_sysfs(), the same
issue also can be triggered.
Function put_device() should be called to release kobj->name memory and
other device resource, instead of kfree().
Fixes: 1fa5ae857b ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array")
Signed-off-by: Wang Liang <wangliang74@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250901063537.1472221-1-wangliang74@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
This new attribute is supposed to be used instead of NFTA_DEVICE_NAME
for simple wildcard interface specs. It holds a NUL-terminated string
representing an interface name prefix to match on.
While kernel code to distinguish full names from prefixes in
NFTA_DEVICE_NAME is simpler than this solution, reusing the existing
attribute with different semantics leads to confusion between different
versions of kernel and user space though:
* With old kernels, wildcards submitted by user space are accepted yet
silently treated as regular names.
* With old user space, wildcards submitted by kernel may cause crashes
since libnftnl expects NUL-termination when there is none.
Using a distinct attribute type sanitizes these situations as the
receiving part detects and rejects the unexpected attribute nested in
*_HOOK_DEVS attributes.
Fixes: 6d07a28950 ("netfilter: nf_tables: Support wildcard netdev hook specs")
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
