From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mkubecek@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netlink: add NLA_REJECT policy type
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:39:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1537177194.2957.7.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180913.155934.742447935316828936.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 15:59 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:46:02 +0200
>
> > + NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(extack, nla);
> > + if (extack && !extack->_msg)
> > + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
> > + "Attribute failed policy validation");
>
> Given the lively discussion that resulted from this conditional I am
> pretty sure we want to override existing messages.
>
> If we have an existing message, and we continued to process and
> parse anyways, then the existing message was informational or
> a warning.
>
> The message should be overridden when the action will be to fail, as
> it will be here when we return -EINVAL.
Not just -EINVAL, but yeah, I've just reworked the patch to do this.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-17 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-13 8:46 [PATCH 1/2] netlink: add NLA_REJECT policy type Johannes Berg
2018-09-13 8:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] netlink: add ethernet address policy types Johannes Berg
2018-09-13 11:58 ` Michal Kubecek
2018-09-13 12:02 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-13 12:12 ` Michal Kubecek
2018-09-13 12:16 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-13 12:24 ` Michal Kubecek
2018-09-13 12:46 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-13 16:03 ` Michal Kubecek
2018-09-13 19:41 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-09-13 20:39 ` Michal Kubecek
2018-09-17 7:45 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-13 10:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] netlink: add NLA_REJECT policy type Michal Kubecek
2018-09-13 11:25 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-13 12:05 ` Michal Kubecek
2018-09-13 19:20 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-09-13 20:43 ` Michal Kubecek
2018-09-13 19:30 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-09-13 21:27 ` Michal Kubecek
2018-09-13 21:58 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-09-17 9:38 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-17 20:17 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-09-18 12:34 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-09-18 12:39 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-18 12:55 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-09-18 12:57 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-18 13:12 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-09-18 16:42 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-13 22:59 ` David Miller
2018-09-17 9:39 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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