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* [PATCH net-next] net: sched: sch_api: set an error msg when qdisc_alloc_handle() fails
@ 2019-02-15 10:23 Ivan Vecera
  2019-02-15 10:30 ` Stefano Brivio
  2019-02-17 23:39 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ivan Vecera @ 2019-02-15 10:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev

This patch sets an error message in extack when the number of qdisc
handles exceeds the maximum. Also the error-code ENOSPC is more
appropriate than ENOMEM in this situation.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
---
 net/sched/sch_api.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
index 2283924fb56d..b8a388e4bcc4 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c
@@ -1201,9 +1201,11 @@ static struct Qdisc *qdisc_create(struct net_device *dev,
 	} else {
 		if (handle == 0) {
 			handle = qdisc_alloc_handle(dev);
-			err = -ENOMEM;
-			if (handle == 0)
+			if (handle == 0) {
+				NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Maximum number of qdisc handles was exceeded");
+				err = -ENOSPC;
 				goto err_out3;
+			}
 		}
 		if (!netif_is_multiqueue(dev))
 			sch->flags |= TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE;
-- 
2.19.2


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