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Message-Id: <20230216232126.3402975-9-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 01:21:22 +0200 From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>, Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>, Gerhard Engleder <gerhard@...leder-embedded.com>, Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>, Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>, Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Ferenc Fejes <ferenc.fejes@...csson.com>, Xiaoliang Yang <xiaoliang.yang_1@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH net-next 08/12] net/sched: mqprio: add an extack message to mqprio_parse_opt() Ferenc reports that a combination of poor iproute2 defaults and obscure cases where the kernel returns -EINVAL make it difficult to understand what is wrong with this command: $ ip link add veth0 numtxqueues 8 numrxqueues 8 type veth peer name veth1 $ tc qdisc add dev veth0 root mqprio num_tc 8 map 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 \ queues 1@0 1@1 1@2 1@3 1@4 1@5 1@6 1@7 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument Hopefully with this patch, the cause is clearer: Error: Device does not support hardware offload. This was rejected because iproute2 defaults to "hw 1" if the option is not specified. Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20230204135307.1036988-3-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com/#25215636 Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com> --- net/sched/sch_mqprio.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c index 18eda5fade81..52cfc0ec2e23 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_mqprio.c @@ -134,8 +134,11 @@ static int mqprio_parse_opt(struct net_device *dev, struct tc_mqprio_qopt *qopt, /* If ndo_setup_tc is not present then hardware doesn't support offload * and we should return an error. */ - if (qopt->hw && !dev->netdev_ops->ndo_setup_tc) + if (qopt->hw && !dev->netdev_ops->ndo_setup_tc) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, + "Device does not support hardware offload"); return -EINVAL; + } return 0; } -- 2.34.1
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