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From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
To: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/5] net/mlx5e: Return -EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to offload an unsupported action
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:42:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3xEMggVu7_9HUkNsTs2PHa25y-PeqPg6Kvvekavwrm6UzyKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1551091207-10366-6-git-send-email-xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 1:07 PM <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com> wrote:

> The encapsulation is not supported for mlx5 VFs. When we try to
> offload that action, the -EINVAL is returned, but not -EOPNOTSUPP.
> This patch changes the returned value and ignore to confuse user.

FWIW, note that this changes the behavior towards user-space, I don't see
concrete harm done here but we should realize that

> For example: (p2p1_0 is VF net device)
> tc filter add dev p2p1_0 protocol ip  parent ffff: prio 1 flower skip_sw \
>         src_mac e4:11:22:33:44:01       \
>         action tunnel_key set           \
>         src_ip 1.1.1.100                \
>         dst_ip 1.1.1.200                \
>         dst_port 4789 id 100            \
>         action mirred egress redirect dev vxlan0
>
> "RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument"

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-26 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-25 10:40 [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] net/mlx5e: Make little improvement for mlx5e xiangxia.m.yue
2019-02-25 10:40 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/5] net/mlx5e: Return -EOPNOTSUPP when modify header action zero xiangxia.m.yue
2019-02-26 13:54   ` Roi Dayan
2019-02-27 11:46     ` Tonghao Zhang
2019-02-26 22:41   ` Or Gerlitz
     [not found]   ` <CAJ3xEMh7GU8W=kfnM3eU4-0CxGyqB_1TvMWcr8WB3AK=xRM6gA@mail.gmail.com>
2019-02-27 11:47     ` Tonghao Zhang
2019-02-25 10:40 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/5] net/mlx5e: Make the log friendly when decapsulation offload not supported xiangxia.m.yue
2019-02-26 13:50   ` Roi Dayan
2019-02-25 10:40 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/5] net/mlx5e: Remove 'parse_attr' argument in parse_tc_fdb_actions() xiangxia.m.yue
2019-02-26 13:38   ` Roi Dayan
2019-02-25 10:40 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] net/mlx5e: Deletes unnecessary setting of esw_attr->parse_attr xiangxia.m.yue
2019-02-26 13:43   ` Roi Dayan
2019-02-25 10:40 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/5] net/mlx5e: Return -EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to offload an unsupported action xiangxia.m.yue
2019-02-26 13:49   ` Roi Dayan
2019-02-26 22:42   ` Or Gerlitz [this message]

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