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Message-ID: <20240507104421.1628139-13-ast@fiberby.net>
Date: Tue,  7 May 2024 10:44:13 +0000
From: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@...erby.net>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@...erby.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 12/14] net: qede: use faked extack in qede_flow_spec_to_rule()

Since qede_parse_flow_attr() now does error reporting
through extack, then give it a fake extack and extract the
error message afterwards if one was set.

The extracted error message is then passed on through
DP_NOTICE(), including messages that was earlier issued
with DP_INFO().

This fake extack approach is already used by
mlxsw_env_linecard_modules_power_mode_apply() in
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_env.c

Only compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@...erby.net>
---

Note:
Even through _msg is marked in include/linux/netlink.h as
"don't access directly, use NL_SET_ERR_MSG", then the comment
above NL_SET_ERR_MSG, seams to indicate that it should be fine
to access it directly if for reading, as is done other places.
I could also add a NL_GET_ERR_MSG but I would rather not do that
in this series.

 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c
index 8734c864f324..3727ab5af088 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c
@@ -1989,6 +1989,7 @@ static int qede_flow_spec_to_rule(struct qede_dev *edev,
 {
 	struct ethtool_rx_flow_spec_input input = {};
 	struct ethtool_rx_flow_rule *flow;
+	struct netlink_ext_ack extack;
 	__be16 proto;
 	int err;
 
@@ -2016,7 +2017,7 @@ static int qede_flow_spec_to_rule(struct qede_dev *edev,
 	if (IS_ERR(flow))
 		return PTR_ERR(flow);
 
-	err = qede_parse_flow_attr(NULL, proto, flow->rule, t);
+	err = qede_parse_flow_attr(&extack, proto, flow->rule, t);
 	if (err)
 		goto err_out;
 
@@ -2024,6 +2025,8 @@ static int qede_flow_spec_to_rule(struct qede_dev *edev,
 	err = qede_flow_spec_validate(edev, &flow->rule->action, t,
 				      fs->location);
 err_out:
+	if (extack._msg)
+		DP_NOTICE(edev, "%s\n", extack._msg);
 	ethtool_rx_flow_rule_destroy(flow);
 	return err;
 
-- 
2.43.0