> On 13 Jun 2019, at 11:09, Kevin 'ldir' Darbyshire-Bryant 
> <l...@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
<snip?
> 
> Warning: Not even compile tested!  Am I heading in the right direction?
> 

I think this is even better.  Does it help?  Clues before I send as proper 
patch :-)

Subject: [PATCH] sched: act_ctinfo: use extack error reporting

Use extack error reporting mechanism in addition to returning -EINVAL

Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <l...@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
---
 net/sched/act_ctinfo.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c b/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c
index e78b60e47c0f..5fc1de4d7cf8 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_ctinfo.c
@@ -165,15 +165,20 @@ static int tcf_ctinfo_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr 
*nla,
        u8 dscpmaskshift;
        int ret = 0, err;

-       if (!nla)
+       if (!nla) {
+               NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "ctinfo requires attributes to be 
passed");
                return -EINVAL;
+       }

-       err = nla_parse_nested(tb, TCA_CTINFO_MAX, nla, ctinfo_policy, NULL);
+       err = nla_parse_nested(tb, TCA_CTINFO_MAX, nla, ctinfo_policy, extack);
        if (err < 0)
                return err;

-       if (!tb[TCA_CTINFO_ACT])
+       if (!tb[TCA_CTINFO_ACT]) {
+               NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
+                                  "Missing required TCA_CTINFO_ACT attribute");
                return -EINVAL;
+       }
        actparm = nla_data(tb[TCA_CTINFO_ACT]);

        /* do some basic validation here before dynamically allocating things */
@@ -182,13 +187,21 @@ static int tcf_ctinfo_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr 
*nla,
                dscpmask = nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_MASK]);
                /* need contiguous 6 bit mask */
                dscpmaskshift = dscpmask ? __ffs(dscpmask) : 0;
-               if ((~0 & (dscpmask >> dscpmaskshift)) != 0x3f)
+               if ((~0 & (dscpmask >> dscpmaskshift)) != 0x3f) {
+                       NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack,
+                                           tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_MASK],
+                                           "dscp mask must be 6 contiguous 
bits");
                        return -EINVAL;
+               }
                dscpstatemask = tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_STATEMASK] ?
                        nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_DSCP_STATEMASK]) : 0;
                /* mask & statemask must not overlap */
-               if (dscpmask & dscpstatemask)
+               if (dscpmask & dscpstatemask) {
+                       NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack,
+                                           tb[TCA_CTINFO_PARMS_STATEMASK],
+                                           "dscp statemask must not overlap 
dscp mask");
                        return -EINVAL;
+               }
        }

        /* done the validation:now to the actual action allocation */
--
2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)


Your patience & help much appreciated.

Kevin

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