Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] netlink: extended error reporting

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:41:03 +0200

On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 20:26 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> +	if (nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_EXT_ACK) {
> +		if (exterr && exterr->msg)
> +			WARN_ON(nla_put_string(skb,
> NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG,
> +					       exterr->msg));
> +		if (exterr && exterr->msg_offset)
> +			WARN_ON(nla_put_u32(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_OFFS,
> +					    exterr->msg_offset));
> +		if (exterr && exterr->attr)
> +			WARN_ON(nla_put_u16(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_ATTR,
> +					    exterr->attr));
> +	}

I forgot to check (err != 0) here, which can cause inconsistencies -
noticed that while just adding the error case Jamal wanted. I'll send
out that as a separate patch, and squash it later when I resubmit.

johannes