[PATCH net 3/4] tools: ynl-gen: fix nested array counting

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon,  1 Sep 2025 14:50:22 +0000 Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
> The blamed commit introduced the concept of split attribute
> counting, and later allocating an array to hold them, however
> TypeArrayNest wasn't updated to use the new counting variable.
> 
> Abbreviated example from tools/net/ynl/generated/nl80211-user.c:
> nl80211_if_combination_attributes_parse(...):
>   unsigned int n_limits = 0;
>   [...]
>   ynl_attr_for_each(attr, nlh, yarg->ys->family->hdr_len)
> 	if (type == NL80211_IFACE_COMB_LIMITS)
> 		ynl_attr_for_each_nested(attr2, attr)
> 			dst->_count.limits++;
>   if (n_limits) {
> 	dst->_count.limits = n_limits;
> 	/* allocate and parse attributes */
>   }
> 
> In the above example n_limits is guaranteed to always be 0,
> hence the conditional is unsatisfiable and is optimized out.
> 
> This patch changes the attribute counting to use n_limits++ in the
> attribute counting loop in the above example.

Looks good, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>