Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 02:30:42PM CEST, pab...@redhat.com wrote:
>Currently, when initializing an action, the user-space can specify
>and use arbitrary values for the tcfa_action field. If the value
>is unknown by the kernel, is implicitly threaded as TC_ACT_UNSPEC.
>
>This change explicitly checks for unknown values at action creation
>time, and explicitly convert them to TC_ACT_UNSPEC. No functional
>changes are introduced, but this will allow introducing tcfa_action
>values not exposed to user-space in a later patch.
>
>Note: we can't use the above to hide TC_ACT_REDIRECT from user-space,
>as the latter is already part of uAPI.
>
>v3 -> v4:
> - use an helper to check for action validity (JiriP)
> - emit an extack for invalid actions (JiriP)
>v4 -> v5:
> - keep messages on a single line, drop net_warn (Marcelo)

Little nitpick: The changelog should be in the reverse order.

>
>Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>

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