Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] vxlan: add back error messages to vxlan_config_validate() as extended netlink acks

From: Jiri Benc
Date: Wed Jun 28 2017 - 13:25:39 EST


On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:47:58 +0200, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> if ((conf->flags & ~VXLAN_F_ALLOWED_GPE) ||
> !(conf->flags & VXLAN_F_COLLECT_METADATA)) {
> + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
> + "unsupported combination of extensions");

Since we're redesigning this, let's be more helpful to the user.
There's probably not going to be tremendous improvements here but let's
try at least a bit.

"VXLAN GPE does not support this combination of extensions"

> if (local_type & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) {
> if (!(remote_type & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) &&
> - (remote_type != IPV6_ADDR_ANY))
> + (remote_type != IPV6_ADDR_ANY)) {
> + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
> + "invalid combination of address scopes");

"invalid combination of local and remote address scopes"

> return -EINVAL;
> + }
>
> conf->flags |= VXLAN_F_IPV6_LINKLOCAL;
> } else {
> if (remote_type ==
> - (IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST | IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL))
> + (IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST | IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) {
> + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack,
> + "invalid combination of address scopes");

ditto

The rest looks good to me. Thanks a lot for doing the work, Matthias!

Jiri