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authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>2018-11-06 12:51:16 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-11-06 15:00:45 -0800
commit68d57f3b1d1a87b4022a0a7463126d7ea172bda1 (patch)
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parentd7e774f356765d49b63490d611caa496713b7abb (diff)
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rtnetlink: Add more extack messages to rtnl_newlink
Add extack arg to the nla_parse_nested calls in rtnl_newlink, and add messages for unknown device type and link network namespace id. In particular, it improves the failure message when the wrong link type is used. From $ ip li add bond1 type bonding RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported to $ ip li add bond1 type bonding Error: Unknown device type. (The module name is bonding but the link type is bond.) Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index f787b7640d49..86f2d9cbdae3 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3054,7 +3054,7 @@ replay:
if (ops->maxtype && linkinfo[IFLA_INFO_DATA]) {
err = nla_parse_nested(attr, ops->maxtype,
linkinfo[IFLA_INFO_DATA],
- ops->policy, NULL);
+ ops->policy, extack);
if (err < 0)
return err;
data = attr;
@@ -3076,7 +3076,7 @@ replay:
m_ops->slave_maxtype,
linkinfo[IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_DATA],
m_ops->slave_policy,
- NULL);
+ extack);
if (err < 0)
return err;
slave_data = slave_attr;
@@ -3140,6 +3140,7 @@ replay:
goto replay;
}
#endif
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Unknown device type");
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
@@ -3160,6 +3161,7 @@ replay:
link_net = get_net_ns_by_id(dest_net, id);
if (!link_net) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Unknown network namespace id");
err = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}