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Netlink attributes are currently passed deep in the MDB creation call
chain, making it difficult to add new attributes. In addition, some
validity checks are performed under the multicast lock although they can
be performed before it is ever acquired.
As a first step towards solving these issues, parse the RTM_{NEW,DEL}MDB
messages into a configuration structure, relieving other functions from
the need to handle raw netlink attributes.
Subsequent patches will convert the MDB code to use this configuration
structure.
This is consistent with how other rtnetlink objects are handled, such as
routes and nexthops.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.