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Commit 69642c2a authored by Ido Schimmel's avatar Ido Schimmel Committed by David S. Miller
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net/sched: act_gact: Add extack messages for offload failure



For better error reporting to user space, add extack messages when gact
action offload fails.

Example:

 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/netlink/netlink_extack/enable

 # tc filter add dev dummy0 ingress pref 1 proto all matchall skip_sw action continue
 Error: cls_matchall: Failed to setup flow action.
 We have an error talking to the kernel

 # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
       tc-181     [002] b..1.   105.493450: netlink_extack: msg=act_gact: Offload of "continue" action is not supported
       tc-181     [002] .....   105.493466: netlink_extack: msg=cls_matchall: Failed to setup flow action

 # tc filter add dev dummy0 ingress pref 1 proto all matchall skip_sw action reclassify
 Error: cls_matchall: Failed to setup flow action.
 We have an error talking to the kernel

 # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
       tc-183     [002] b..1.   124.126477: netlink_extack: msg=act_gact: Offload of "reclassify" action is not supported
       tc-183     [002] .....   124.126489: netlink_extack: msg=cls_matchall: Failed to setup flow action

 # tc filter add dev dummy0 ingress pref 1 proto all matchall skip_sw action pipe action drop
 Error: cls_matchall: Failed to setup flow action.
 We have an error talking to the kernel

 # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe
       tc-185     [002] b..1.   137.097791: netlink_extack: msg=act_gact: Offload of "pipe" action is not supported
       tc-185     [002] .....   137.097804: netlink_extack: msg=cls_matchall: Failed to setup flow action

Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent c2ccf84e
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