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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail•com>,
	Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/4] net/sched: user-space can't set unknown tcfa_action values
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:21:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180730142155.GC10626@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f455f493-c106-aa93-b92a-2aa94c969d31@mojatatu.com>

Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 04:03:50PM CEST, jhs@mojatatu•com wrote:
>On 30/07/18 08:30 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>>   	}
>> +	if (!tcf_action_valid(a->tcfa_action)) {
>> +		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "invalid action value, using TC_ACT_UNSPEC instead");
>> +		a->tcfa_action = TC_ACT_UNSPEC;
>> +	}
>> +
>>   	return a;
>
>
>I think it would make a lot more sense to just reject the entry than
>changing it underneath the user to a default value. Least element of
>suprise.

It might break existing user who is incorrectly doing it. But I'm okay
with both solutions.

>
>cheers,
>jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-30 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-30 12:30 [PATCH net-next v5 0/4] TC: refactor act_mirred packets re-injection Paolo Abeni
2018-07-30 12:30 ` [PATCH net-next v5 1/4] net/sched: user-space can't set unknown tcfa_action values Paolo Abeni
2018-07-30 12:36   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-07-30 14:03   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-07-30 14:21     ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2018-07-30 16:41     ` Paolo Abeni
2018-07-30 19:31       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-07-31  9:41         ` Paolo Abeni
2018-07-31 13:53           ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-07-31 14:40             ` Paolo Abeni
2018-08-01 14:34               ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-07-30 12:30 ` [PATCH net-next v5 2/4] tc/act: remove unneeded RCU lock in action callback Paolo Abeni
2018-07-30 12:30 ` [PATCH net-next v5 3/4] net/tc: introduce TC_ACT_REINSERT Paolo Abeni
2018-07-30 12:40   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-07-30 16:31     ` David Miller
2018-07-30 16:49       ` Jiri Pirko
2018-07-30 16:56         ` David Miller
2018-07-30 12:30 ` [PATCH net-next v5 4/4] act_mirred: use TC_ACT_REINSERT when possible Paolo Abeni
2018-07-30 12:42   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-07-30 16:31 ` [PATCH net-next v5 0/4] TC: refactor act_mirred packets re-injection David Miller

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