Commit 68d57f3b authored by David Ahern's avatar David Ahern Committed by David S. Miller

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: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent d7e774f3
......@@ -3054,7 +3054,7 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
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 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
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 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
goto replay;
}
#endif
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Unknown device type");
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
......@@ -3160,6 +3161,7 @@ static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
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;
}
......
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