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Message-ID: <0D11E179-7104-4774-8A73-2D10C785512E@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:47:04 +0000
From:   Kevin 'ldir' Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@...byshire-bryant.me.uk>
To:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
CC:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>,
        John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        "dcaratti@...hat.com" <dcaratti@...hat.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6] net: sched: Introduce act_ctinfo action



> On 13 Jun 2019, at 11:09, Kevin 'ldir' Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@...byshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
<snip?
> 
> Warning: Not even compile tested!  Am I heading in the right direction?
> 

I think this is even better.  Does it help?  Clues before I send as proper patch :-)

Subject: [PATCH] sched: act_ctinfo: use extack error reporting

Use extack error reporting mechanism in addition to returning -EINVAL

Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@...byshire-bryant.me.uk>
---
 net/sched/act_ctinfo.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c b/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c
index e78b60e47c0f..5fc1de4d7cf8 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c
@@ -165,15 +165,20 @@ static int tcf_ctinfo_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
 	u8 dscpmaskshift;
 	int ret = 0, err;

-	if (!nla)
+	if (!nla) {
+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "ctinfo requires attributes to be passed");
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}

-	err = nla_parse_nested(tb, TCA_CTINFO_MAX, nla, ctinfo_policy, NULL);
+	err = nla_parse_nested(tb, TCA_CTINFO_MAX, nla, ctinfo_policy, extack);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;

-	if (!tb[TCA_CTINFO_ACT])
+	if (!tb[TCA_CTINFO_ACT]) {
+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
+				   "Missing required TCA_CTINFO_ACT attribute");
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 	actparm = nla_data(tb[TCA_CTINFO_ACT]);

 	/* do some basic validation here before dynamically allocating things */
@@ -182,13 +187,21 @@ static int tcf_ctinfo_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
 		dscpmask = nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_MASK]);
 		/* need contiguous 6 bit mask */
 		dscpmaskshift = dscpmask ? __ffs(dscpmask) : 0;
-		if ((~0 & (dscpmask >> dscpmaskshift)) != 0x3f)
+		if ((~0 & (dscpmask >> dscpmaskshift)) != 0x3f) {
+			NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack,
+					    tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_MASK],
+					    "dscp mask must be 6 contiguous bits");
 			return -EINVAL;
+		}
 		dscpstatemask = tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_STATEMASK] ?
 			nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_STATEMASK]) : 0;
 		/* mask & statemask must not overlap */
-		if (dscpmask & dscpstatemask)
+		if (dscpmask & dscpstatemask) {
+			NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack,
+					    tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_STATEMASK],
+					    "dscp statemask must not overlap dscp mask");
 			return -EINVAL;
+		}
 	}

 	/* done the validation:now to the actual action allocation */
--
2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)


Your patience & help much appreciated.

Kevin

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