Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 02:34:07PM CEST, johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > >Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the >generic netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in >almost all callers (except for some in the core.) > >Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> >--- [...] >diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c >index b42b8577fc23..a7e0b16078df 100644 >--- a/lib/nlattr.c >+++ b/lib/nlattr.c >@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ static int validate_nla(const struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype, > * @len: length of attribute stream > * @maxtype: maximum attribute type to be expected > * @policy: validation policy >+ * @extack: extended ACK report struct > * > * Validates all attributes in the specified attribute stream against the > * specified policy. Attributes with a type exceeding maxtype will be >@@ -120,20 +121,23 @@ static int validate_nla(const struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype, > * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code. > */ > int nla_validate(const struct nlattr *head, int len, int maxtype, >- const struct nla_policy *policy) >+ const struct nla_policy *policy, >+ struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) > { > const struct nlattr *nla; >- int rem, err; >+ int rem; > > nla_for_each_attr(nla, head, len, rem) { >- err = validate_nla(nla, maxtype, policy); >- if (err < 0) >- goto errout; >+ int err = validate_nla(nla, maxtype, policy); >+ >+ if (err < 0) { You can just check: if (err) while you are at it. validate_nla never returns positive value. Btw, unrelated to this patch, I find it odd to have 2 functions: nla_validate validate_nla Confusing :) >+ if (extack) >+ extack->bad_attr = nla; >+ return err; >+ } > } > >- err = 0; >-errout: >- return err; >+ return 0; > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_validate); > >@@ -180,7 +184,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_policy_len); > * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code. > */ > int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int maxtype, const struct nlattr *head, >- int len, const struct nla_policy *policy) >+ int len, const struct nla_policy *policy, >+ struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) > { > const struct nlattr *nla; > int rem, err; >@@ -193,8 +198,11 @@ int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int maxtype, const struct nlattr *head, > if (type > 0 && type <= maxtype) { > if (policy) { > err = validate_nla(nla, maxtype, policy); >- if (err < 0) >+ if (err < 0) { Same here. >+ if (extack) >+ extack->bad_attr = nla; > goto errout; >+ } > } > > tb[type] = (struct nlattr *)nla;