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Message-ID: <Y9kYcwSm8X0mP5gR@unreal>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:32:35 +0200
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 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
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:47:03PM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> 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.
Sure, will resend.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paolo
>
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