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 16:31:52 -0400
From:   Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
Cc:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        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 11:43:14AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski 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?
> 

I agree 'net' would not have been the place for a change like that, but
I do think that would be a good idea.  It looks like we could easily
change the ndo_setup_tc to something like this:

        int                     (*ndo_setup_tc)(struct net_device *dev,
                                                enum tc_setup_type type,
                                                void *type_data,
						struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);

It also looks like most of the callers of ndo_setup_tc have infra in
place to pass extack easily when the call is sourced from a netlink
message.   The others can just pass in NULL or define a local
netlink_ext_ack variable for short-term use.