netdev - [PATCH 01/13] xfrm: Remove documentation WARN_ON to limit return values for offloaded SA

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Message-ID: <20240910065507.2436394-2-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:54:55 +0200
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, Steffen Klassert
	<steffen.klassert@...unet.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 01/13] xfrm: Remove documentation WARN_ON to limit return values for offloaded SA

From: Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@...dia.com>

The original idea to put WARN_ON() on return value from driver code was
to make sure that packet offload doesn't have silent fallback to
SW implementation, like crypto offload has.

In reality, this is not needed as all *swan implementations followed
this request and used explicit configuration style to make sure that
"users will get what they ask".
So instead of forcing drivers to make sure that even their internal flows
don't return -EOPNOTSUPP, let's remove this WARN_ON.

Signed-off-by: Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c
index 9a44d363ba62..f123b7c9ec82 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c
@@ -328,12 +328,8 @@ int xfrm_dev_state_add(struct net *net, struct xfrm_state *x,
 		/* User explicitly requested packet offload mode and configured
 		 * policy in addition to the XFRM state. So be civil to users,
 		 * and return an error instead of taking fallback path.
-		 *
-		 * This WARN_ON() can be seen as a documentation for driver
-		 * authors to do not return -EOPNOTSUPP in packet offload mode.
 		 */
-		WARN_ON(err == -EOPNOTSUPP && is_packet_offload);
-		if (err != -EOPNOTSUPP || is_packet_offload) {
+		if ((err != -EOPNOTSUPP && !is_packet_offload) || is_packet_offload) {
 			NL_SET_ERR_MSG_WEAK(extack, "Device failed to offload this state");
 			return err;
 		}
-- 
2.34.1