[RFC] add extack errors for iptoken
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2021-04-01 03:50:07
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
Perhaps the following (NOT TESTED) kernel patch will show you how such error messages could be added. Note: requires trickling down the extack parameter, but that is a good thing because other place like devconf could use it as well.
diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
index 4da61c950e93..479f60ef54c0 100644
--- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ struct rtnl_af_ops { int (*validate_link_af)(const struct net_device *dev, const struct nlattr *attr); int (*set_link_af)(struct net_device *dev, - const struct nlattr *attr); - + const struct nlattr *attr, + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack); int (*fill_stats_af)(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev); size_t (*get_stats_af_size)(const struct net_device *dev);
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 1bdcb33fb561..3485b16a7ff3 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c@@ -2863,7 +2863,7 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb, BUG_ON(!(af_ops = rtnl_af_lookup(nla_type(af)))); - err = af_ops->set_link_af(dev, af); + err = af_ops->set_link_af(dev, af, extack); if (err < 0) { rcu_read_unlock(); goto errout;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 75f67994fc85..2e35f68da40a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c@@ -1978,7 +1978,8 @@ static int inet_validate_link_af(const struct net_device *dev, return 0; } -static int inet_set_link_af(struct net_device *dev, const struct nlattr *nla) +static int inet_set_link_af(struct net_device *dev, const struct nlattr *nla, + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) { struct in_device *in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev); struct nlattr *a, *tb[IFLA_INET_MAX+1];
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 120073ffb666..b817086fbf42 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c@@ -5672,7 +5672,8 @@ static int inet6_fill_link_af(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev, return 0; } -static int inet6_set_iftoken(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct in6_addr *token) +static int inet6_set_iftoken(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct in6_addr *token, + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) { struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp; struct net_device *dev = idev->dev;
@@ -5681,14 +5682,29 @@ static int inet6_set_iftoken(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct in6_addr *token) ASSERT_RTNL(); - if (!token) + if (!token) { return -EINVAL; - if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK | IFF_NOARP)) + } + + if (dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Device is loopback"); return -EINVAL; - if (!ipv6_accept_ra(idev)) + } + + if (dev->flags & IFF_NOARP) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Device does not do discovery"); return -EINVAL; - if (idev->cnf.rtr_solicits == 0) + } + + if (!ipv6_accept_ra(idev)) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Device does accept route adverts"); + return -EINVAL; + } + + if (idev->cnf.rtr_solicits == 0) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Device has disabled router solicitation"); return -EINVAL; + } write_lock_bh(&idev->lock);
@@ -5796,7 +5812,8 @@ static int inet6_validate_link_af(const struct net_device *dev, return 0; } -static int inet6_set_link_af(struct net_device *dev, const struct nlattr *nla) +static int inet6_set_link_af(struct net_device *dev, const struct nlattr *nla, + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) { struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(dev); struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_INET6_MAX + 1];
@@ -5809,7 +5826,8 @@ static int inet6_set_link_af(struct net_device *dev, const struct nlattr *nla) BUG(); if (tb[IFLA_INET6_TOKEN]) { - err = inet6_set_iftoken(idev, nla_data(tb[IFLA_INET6_TOKEN])); + err = inet6_set_iftoken(idev, nla_data(tb[IFLA_INET6_TOKEN]), + extack); if (err) return err; }