Linux kernel documentation tree maintained by Jonathan Corbet http://mirrors.hust.edu.cn/git/lwn.git/atom?h=master 2026-03-18T23:41:42+00:00 2026-03-18T23:41:42+00:00 Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org 2026-03-13T23:20:47+00:00 urn:sha1:17a55ddb19567642aa404f5525be3cf4425c6c1a Donald points out that the current naive implementation using dicts breaks if policy is recursive (child nest uses policy idx already used by its parent). Lean more into the NlPolicy class. This lets us "render" the policy on demand, when user accesses it. If someone wants to do an infinite walk that's on them :) Show policy info as attributes of the class and use dict format to descend into sub-policies for extra neatness. Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260313232047.2068518-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 2026-03-13T01:02:13+00:00 Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org 2026-03-11T03:28:39+00:00 urn:sha1:c1f9a89b0c901266028e66cd8e6bdf54c8c3042e Add validation for the nlctrl family, accessing family info and dumping policies. TAP version 13 1..4 ok 1 nl_nlctrl.getfamily_do ok 2 nl_nlctrl.getfamily_dump ok 3 nl_nlctrl.getpolicy_dump ok 4 nl_nlctrl.getpolicy_by_op # Totals: pass:4 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311032839.417748-5-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>