netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 2/6] bnxt_en: do not allow wildcard matches for L2 flows

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:21:39 -0700
From:   Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
Cc:     Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...adcom.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 2/6] bnxt_en: do not allow wildcard matches for L2 flows

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:50:14 -0400, Michael Chan wrote:
>> @@ -764,6 +788,41 @@ static bool bnxt_tc_can_offload(struct bnxt *bp, struct bnxt_tc_flow *flow)
>>               return false;
>>       }
>>
>> +     /* Currently source/dest MAC cannot be partial wildcard  */
>> +     if (bits_set(&flow->l2_key.smac, sizeof(flow->l2_key.smac)) &&
>> +         !is_exactmatch(flow->l2_mask.smac, sizeof(flow->l2_mask.smac))) {
>> +             netdev_info(bp->dev, "Wildcard match unsupported for Source MAC\n");
>
> This wouldn't be something to do in net, but how do you feel about
> using extack for messages like this?
>

Sounds reasonable to me.  Just need to pass in the extack pointer to
this function to set the netlink error message.