netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 01/10] xfrm: extend add policy callback to set failure reason

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:02:26 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Ayush Sawal <ayush.sawal@...lsio.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...igine.com,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Raju Rangoju <rajur@...lsio.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 01/10] xfrm: extend add policy callback to
 set failure reason

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 13:54:57 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> -	err = dev->xfrmdev_ops->xdo_dev_policy_add(xp);
> +	err = dev->xfrmdev_ops->xdo_dev_policy_add(xp, extack);
>  	if (err) {
>  		xdo->dev = NULL;
>  		xdo->real_dev = NULL;
>  		xdo->type = XFRM_DEV_OFFLOAD_UNSPECIFIED;
>  		xdo->dir = 0;
>  		netdev_put(dev, &xdo->dev_tracker);
> -		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Device failed to offload this policy");

In a handful of places we do:

if (!extack->msg)
	NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Device failed to offload this policy");

in case the device did not provide the extack.
Dunno if it's worth doing here.