netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] ipv6: enable IPV6_FLOWLABEL

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Date:	Mon, 4 Nov 2013 18:46:49 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@...t-bretagne.fr>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ipv6: enable IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MGR for getsockopt

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:09:01PM +0100, Florent Fourcot wrote:
> 
> > We should take ip6_fl_lock here, otherwise expires extraction races with
> > the garbage collector (which can update it). There seem to be some other
> > unsafe places, e.g. fl6_renew.
> > 
> 
> I will fix it, and for fl6_renew too.

Thanks!

> >> +			freq->flr_label = sfl->fl->label;
> >> +			freq->flr_dst = sfl->fl->dst;
> >> +			freq->flr_share = sfl->fl->share;
> >> +			freq->flr_expires = (sfl->fl->expires - jiffies) / HZ;
> >> +			freq->flr_linger = sfl->fl->linger / HZ;
> >> +
> >> +			rcu_read_unlock_bh();
> >> +			return 0;
> >> +		}
> >> +	}
> >> +	rcu_read_unlock_bh();
> >> +
> >> +	return 0;
> > 
> > Maybe return -EINVAL for not found?
> > 
> 
> I don't like -EINVAL for this case, since the user can not know if there
> are no label or if the request has bad parameters. Could -ENOMSG be OK?

-ENOMSG or we already return -ENOENT from the same setsockopt. I would go with
ENOENT.

Greetings,

  Hannes

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