[PATCH net-next v2 12/14] net: qede: use faked extack in qede_flow_spec_to_rule()

Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2024-05-08T14:34:36Z

Since qede_parse_flow_attr() now does error reporting
through extack, then give it a fake extack and extract the
error message afterwards if one was set.

The extracted error message is then passed on through
DP_NOTICE(), including messages that was earlier issued
with DP_INFO().

This fake extack approach is already used by
mlxsw_env_linecard_modules_power_mode_apply() in
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_env.c

Only compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@fiberby.net>

---
Note:
Even through _msg is marked in include/linux/netlink.h as
"don't access directly, use NL_SET_ERR_MSG", then the comment
above NL_SET_ERR_MSG, seams to indicate that it should be fine
to access it directly if for reading, as is done other places.
I could also add a NL_GET_ERR_MSG but I would rather not do that
in this series.
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c
index 8c1c15b73125..b83432744a03 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c
@@ -1990,6 +1990,7 @@ static int qede_flow_spec_to_rule(struct qede_dev *edev,
{
struct ethtool_rx_flow_spec_input input = {};
struct ethtool_rx_flow_rule *flow;
+ struct netlink_ext_ack extack;
__be16 proto;
int err;

@@ -2017,7 +2018,7 @@ static int qede_flow_spec_to_rule(struct qede_dev *edev,
if (IS_ERR(flow))
return PTR_ERR(flow);

- err = qede_parse_flow_attr(proto, flow->rule, t, NULL);
+ err = qede_parse_flow_attr(proto, flow->rule, t, &extack);
if (err)
goto err_out;

@@ -2025,6 +2026,8 @@ static int qede_flow_spec_to_rule(struct qede_dev *edev,
err = qede_flow_spec_validate(edev, &flow->rule->action, t,
fs->location);
err_out:
+ if (extack._msg)
+ DP_NOTICE(edev, "%s\n", extack._msg);
ethtool_rx_flow_rule_destroy(flow);
return err;

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2.43.0