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Commit d96e48a3 authored by Jiri Pirko's avatar Jiri Pirko Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types



In case the kernel sends message back containing attribute not defined
in family spec, following exception is raised to the user:

$ sudo ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml --do trap-get --json '{"bus-name": "netdevsim", "dev-name": "netdevsim1", "trap-name": "source_mac_is_multicast"}'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jiri/work/linux/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py", line 521, in _decode
    attr_spec = attr_space.attrs_by_val[attr.type]
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 132

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jiri/work/linux/./tools/net/ynl/cli.py", line 61, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/jiri/work/linux/./tools/net/ynl/cli.py", line 49, in main
    reply = ynl.do(args.do, attrs, args.flags)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/jiri/work/linux/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py", line 731, in do
    return self._op(method, vals, flags)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/jiri/work/linux/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py", line 719, in _op
    rsp_msg = self._decode(decoded.raw_attrs, op.attr_set.name)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/jiri/work/linux/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py", line 525, in _decode
    raise Exception(f"Space '{space}' has no attribute with value '{attr.type}'")
Exception: Space 'devlink' has no attribute with value '132'

Introduce a command line option "process-unknown" and pass it down to
YnlFamily class constructor to allow user to process unknown
attributes and types and print them as binaries.

$ sudo ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml --do trap-get --json '{"bus-name": "netdevsim", "dev-name": "netdevsim1", "trap-name": "source_mac_is_multicast"}' --process-unknown
{'UnknownAttr(129)': {'UnknownAttr(0)': b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00',
                      'UnknownAttr(1)': b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00',
                      'UnknownAttr(2)': b'\x0e\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'},
 'UnknownAttr(132)': b'\x00',
 'UnknownAttr(133)': b'',
 'UnknownAttr(134)': {'UnknownAttr(0)': b''},
 'bus-name': 'netdevsim',
 'dev-name': 'netdevsim1',
 'trap-action': 'drop',
 'trap-group-name': 'l2_drops',
 'trap-name': 'source_mac_is_multicast'}

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231027092525.956172-1-jiri@resnulli.us


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent ff672b9f
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