Re: [PATCH net-next] genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes

Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master) by David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>: On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:18:30 -0700 you wrote:

We had historically not checked that genlmsghdr.reserved is 0 on input which prevents us from using those precious bytes in the future.

One use case would be to extend the cmd field, which is currently just 8 bits wide and 256 is not a lot of commands for some core families.

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