linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 net-next 05/13] net/sched: mqprio: add an extack message to mqprio_parse

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Date:   Mon, 20 Feb 2023 14:23:35 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>,
        Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>,
        Gerhard Engleder <gerhard@...leder-embedded.com>,
        Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Ferenc Fejes <ferenc.fejes@...csson.com>,
        Xiaoliang Yang <xiaoliang.yang_1@....com>,
        Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>,
        Pranavi Somisetty <pranavi.somisetty@....com>,
        Harini Katakam <harini.katakam@....com>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
        Michael Sit Wei Hong <michael.wei.hong.sit@...el.com>,
        Mohammad Athari Bin Ismail <mohammad.athari.ismail@...el.com>,
        Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ferenc Fejes <fejes@....elte.hu>
Subject: [PATCH v3 net-next 05/13] net/sched: mqprio: add an extack message to mqprio_parse_opt()

Ferenc reports that a combination of poor iproute2 defaults and obscure
cases where the kernel returns -EINVAL make it difficult to understand
what is wrong with this command:

$ ip link add veth0 numtxqueues 8 numrxqueues 8 type veth peer name veth1
$ tc qdisc add dev veth0 root mqprio num_tc 8 map 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 \
        queues 1@0 1@1 1@2 1@3 1@4 1@5 1@6 1@7
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

Hopefully with this patch, the cause is clearer:

Error: Device does not support hardware offload.

The kernel was (and still is) rejecting this because iproute2 defaults
to "hw 1" if this command line option is not specified.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ede5e9a2f27bf83bfb86d3e8c4ca7b34093b99e2.camel@inf.elte.hu/
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Reviewed-by: Ferenc Fejes <fejes@....elte.hu>
---
v2->v3: change link from patchwork to lore
v1->v2: slightly reword last paragraph of commit message

 net/sched/sch_mqprio.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
index 5a9261c38b95..9ee5a9a9b9e9 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c
@@ -133,8 +133,11 @@ static int mqprio_parse_opt(struct net_device *dev, struct tc_mqprio_qopt *qopt,
 	/* If ndo_setup_tc is not present then hardware doesn't support offload
 	 * and we should return an error.
 	 */
-	if (qopt->hw && !dev->netdev_ops->ndo_setup_tc)
+	if (qopt->hw && !dev->netdev_ops->ndo_setup_tc) {
+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
+			       "Device does not support hardware offload");
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.34.1