Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: fib_rules: Enable port mask usage

[Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:41:06 +0200
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> wrote:

> Allow user space to configure FIB rules that match on the source and
> destination ports with a mask, now that support has been added to the
> FIB rule core and the IPv4 and IPv6 address families.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  net/core/fib_rules.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/fib_rules.c b/net/core/fib_rules.c
> index ba6beaa63f44..5ddd34cbe7f6 100644
> --- a/net/core/fib_rules.c
> +++ b/net/core/fib_rules.c
> @@ -843,8 +843,8 @@ static const struct nla_policy fib_rule_policy[FRA_MAX +
> 1] = { [FRA_DSCP]	= NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8, INET_DSCP_MASK >> 2),
>  	[FRA_FLOWLABEL] = { .type = NLA_BE32 },
>  	[FRA_FLOWLABEL_MASK] = { .type = NLA_BE32 },
> -	[FRA_SPORT_MASK] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
> -	[FRA_DPORT_MASK] = { .type = NLA_REJECT },
> +	[FRA_SPORT_MASK] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
> +	[FRA_DPORT_MASK] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
>  };

I don't get the purpose of this patch and patch 1.
Couldn't you have patch 3 and 4 first, then patch 2 that adds the netlink and
UAPI support?

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