netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf] netkit: Reject IFLA_NETKIT_PEER_INFO in netkit_change

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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:22:24 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc: martin.lau@...ux.dev, razor@...ckwall.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] netkit: Reject IFLA_NETKIT_PEER_INFO in
 netkit_change_link

On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:43:11 +0100 Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> +	if (data[IFLA_NETKIT_PEER_INFO]) {
> +		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, data[IFLA_NETKIT_PEER_INFO],
> +				    "netkit peer info cannot be changed after device creation");
> +		return -EACCES;
> +	}

Why EACCES? It doesn't have much to do with permissions and all netlink
validation errors use EINVAL. IMO this is a basic case of "attribute
not defined in the policy", NLA_REJECT, so EINVAL..