Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 01/10] xfrm: extend add policy callback to set failure reason

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:02:26 -0800

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 13:54:57 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> -	err = dev->xfrmdev_ops->xdo_dev_policy_add(xp);
> +	err = dev->xfrmdev_ops->xdo_dev_policy_add(xp, extack);
>  	if (err) {
>  		xdo->dev = NULL;
>  		xdo->real_dev = NULL;
>  		xdo->type = XFRM_DEV_OFFLOAD_UNSPECIFIED;
>  		xdo->dir = 0;
>  		netdev_put(dev, &xdo->dev_tracker);
> -		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Device failed to offload this policy");

In a handful of places we do:

if (!extack->msg)
	NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Device failed to offload this policy");

in case the device did not provide the extack.
Dunno if it's worth doing here.