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Message-ID: <Y0gHa99Z70TkKtR5@shredder>
Date:   Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:41:15 +0300
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
To:     "Hans J. Schultz" <netdev@...io-technology.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 1/9] net: bridge: add locked entry fdb flag
 to extend locked port feature

On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 07:40:44PM +0200, Hans J. Schultz wrote:
> diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> index 74864dc46a7e..8008ceb45605 100644
> --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> @@ -4035,6 +4035,7 @@ int ndo_dflt_fdb_add(struct ndmsg *ndm,
>  		     const unsigned char *addr, u16 vid,
>  		     u16 flags)
>  {
> +	__u32 ext_flags = 0;
>  	int err = -EINVAL;
>  
>  	/* If aging addresses are supported device will need to
> @@ -4050,6 +4051,14 @@ int ndo_dflt_fdb_add(struct ndmsg *ndm,
>  		return err;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (tb[NDA_FLAGS_EXT])
> +		ext_flags = nla_get_u32(tb[NDA_FLAGS_EXT]);
> +
> +	if (ext_flags & NTF_EXT_LOCKED) {
> +		netdev_info(dev, "invalid flags given to default FDB implementation\n");
> +		return err;
> +	}

I'm not sure it makes sense to deny specific flags in this case. It
might be better to just error out if NDA_FLAGS_EXT was specified.

> +
>  	if (is_unicast_ether_addr(addr) || is_link_local_ether_addr(addr))
>  		err = dev_uc_add_excl(dev, addr);
>  	else if (is_multicast_ether_addr(addr))
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>