netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] nexthop: Split nh_check_attr

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Message-ID: <CANn89iJoSMSxgrtE5-VVLEXo6FmzHy250QWLBAknOasoZZruKA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:05:48 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] nexthop: Split nh_check_attr_group().

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com> wrote:
>
> We will push RTNL down to rtm_new_nexthop(), and then we
> want to move non-RTNL operations out of the scope.
>
> nh_check_attr_group() validates NHA_GROUP attributes, and
> nexthop_find_by_id() and some validation requires RTNL.
>
> Let's factorise such parts as nh_check_attr_group_rtnl()
> and call it from rtm_to_nh_config_rtnl().
>
> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>