netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v14] openvswitch: enable NSH support

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Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:02:05 +0100
From:   Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
To:     Eric Garver <e@...g.me>
Cc:     Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dev@...nvswitch.org, pshelar@....org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v14] openvswitch: enable NSH support

On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:57:41 -0400, Eric Garver wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 09:29:34AM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> > +	if (WARN_ON(is_push_nsh && is_mask))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> 
> OVS_NLERR() is probably more appropriate.

No, not here. If this happens, it's a bug in the kernel and WARN_ON is
what we need. This is not triggerable from user space and user space
has no way to fix it if this happens.

 Jiri