netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] netlink: provide an ability to set default extack message

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Message-ID: <801a4a44f0fb6e37f79037eae9a3db50191cdb12.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:47:03 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] netlink: provide an ability to set default
 extack message

Hello,

On Sun, 2023-01-29 at 18:51 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> In netdev common pattern, extack pointer is forwarded to the drivers
> to be filled with error message. However, the caller can easily
> overwrite the filled message.
> 
> Instead of adding multiple "if (!extack->_msg)" checks before any
> NL_SET_ERR_MSG() call, which appears after call to the driver, let's
> add new macro to common code.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y9Irgrgf3uxOjwUm@unreal
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>

I'm sorry for nit-picking, but checkpatch complains the author
(leon@...nel.org) does not match the SoB tag. A v3 with a suitable
From: tag should fix that.

Thanks,

Paolo