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Merge branch 'net-sched-propagate-extack-to-cls-offloads-on-destroy-and-only-with-skip_sw'



Jakub Kicinski says:

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net: sched: propagate extack to cls offloads on destroy and only with skip_sw

This series some of Jiri's comments and the fact that today drivers
may produce extack even if there is no skip_sw flag (meaning the
driver failure is not really a problem), and warning messages will
only confuse the users.

First patch propagates extack to destroy as requested by Jiri, extack
is then propagated to the driver callback for each classifier.  I chose
not to provide the extack on error paths.  As a rule of thumb it seems
best to keep the extack of the condition which caused the error.  E.g.

     err = this_will_fail(arg, extack);
     if (err) {
        undo_things(arg, NULL /* don't pass extack */);
	return err;
     }

Note that NL_SET_ERR_MSG() will ignore the message if extack is NULL.
I was pondering whether we should make NL_SET_ERR_MSG() refuse to
overwrite the msg, but there seem to be cases in the tree where extack
is set like this:

     err = this_will_fail(arg, extack);
     if (err) {
        undo_things(arg, NULL /* don't pass extack */);
	NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "extack is set after undo call :/");
	return err;
     }

I think not passing extack to undo calls is reasonable.

v2:
 - rename the temporary tc_cls_common_offload_init().
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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parents 46410c2e c846adb6
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