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SubjectRe: [PATCH net 1/1 v2] rtnetlink: require unique netns identifier
On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:31:29 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Frankly. If we are talking precedence it should be:
> fds
> netnsids
> pids

The current order is 1. pids, 2. fds, though. Not that it matters much,
see below.

> I do think it makes a lot of sense to error if someone passes in
> duplicate arguments. AKA multiple attribute that could select for
> the same thing. No one will do that deliberately. It doesn't make
> sense. So it is just a nonsense case we have to handle gracefully,
> and correctly. With correctness being the most important as otherwise
> people might just send in nonsense to exploit bugs.

Completely agreed. Let's just start returning error if more than one of
the pid/fs/netnsid attributes is specified. I don't think this is going
to break any user. And we'll not have to care about the order.

> I agree refusing to combine multiple attributes for the same thing
> sounds the most sensible course.

Yes, please.

Thanks!

Jiri

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