netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: flower: only return error from hw offload if skip

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Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:07:04 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vladbu@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        jiri@...nulli.us, pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: flower: only return error from hw
 offload if skip_sw

From: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:39:06 +0200

> Recently introduced tc_setup_flow_action() can fail when parsing tcf_exts
> on some unsupported action commands. However, this should not affect the
> case when user did not explicitly request hw offload by setting skip_sw
> flag. Modify tc_setup_flow_action() callers to only propagate the error if
> skip_sw flag is set for filter that is being offloaded, and set extack
> error message in that case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>
> Fixes: 3a7b68617de7 ("cls_api: add translator to flow_action representation")

Applied, thanks Vlad.