On 04/14/2017 07:36 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2017 18:44:44 +0200
> Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net> wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
>> index 07f89b037681..95a71546e8f2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
>> @@ -2881,11 +2881,39 @@ static int vxlan_config_validate(struct net *src_net, struct vxlan_config *conf,
>>  	if (conf->saddr.sa.sa_family != conf->remote_ip.sa.sa_family)
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>>  
>> +	if (vxlan_addr_multicast(&conf->saddr))
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>>  	if (conf->saddr.sa.sa_family == AF_INET6) {
>>  		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6))
>>  			return -EPFNOSUPPORT;
>>  		use_ipv6 = true;
>>  		conf->flags |= VXLAN_F_IPV6;
>> +
>> +		if (!(conf->flags & VXLAN_F_COLLECT_METADATA)) {
>> +			int local_type =
>> +				ipv6_addr_type(&conf->saddr.sin6.sin6_addr);
>> +			int remote_type =
>> +				ipv6_addr_type(&conf->remote_ip.sin6.sin6_addr);
>> +
>> +			if (local_type & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) {
>> +				if (!(remote_type & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) &&
>> +				    (remote_type != IPV6_ADDR_ANY)) {
>> +					pr_info("invalid combination of address scopes\n");
> 
> It is always helpful to include device if possible in error message.
> 					netdev_notice(old->dev, " invalid combination of address scopes\n");

That makes sense, I'll change it in v3.

> Also vxlan is good candidate for extended netlink error reporting.

Can you point me to a piece of code that does this? Unless you insist, I
wouldn't do it in this patchset, but I might implement the extended error
reporting later.

Matthias