In order to provide more meaningful messages to user when the process of loading xdp program onto network interface failed, let's add extack messages within dev_change_xdp_fd.
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkow...@intel.com> --- net/core/dev.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 8e276e0192a1..bfa4be42afff 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -7983,8 +7983,10 @@ int dev_change_xdp_fd(struct net_device *dev, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, query = flags & XDP_FLAGS_HW_MODE ? XDP_QUERY_PROG_HW : XDP_QUERY_PROG; bpf_op = bpf_chk = ops->ndo_bpf; - if (!bpf_op && (flags & (XDP_FLAGS_DRV_MODE | XDP_FLAGS_HW_MODE))) + if (!bpf_op && (flags & (XDP_FLAGS_DRV_MODE | XDP_FLAGS_HW_MODE))) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "underlying driver does not support XDP in native mode"); return -EOPNOTSUPP; + } if (!bpf_op || (flags & XDP_FLAGS_SKB_MODE)) bpf_op = generic_xdp_install; if (bpf_op == bpf_chk) @@ -7992,11 +7994,15 @@ int dev_change_xdp_fd(struct net_device *dev, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, if (fd >= 0) { if (__dev_xdp_query(dev, bpf_chk, XDP_QUERY_PROG) || - __dev_xdp_query(dev, bpf_chk, XDP_QUERY_PROG_HW)) + __dev_xdp_query(dev, bpf_chk, XDP_QUERY_PROG_HW)) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "native and generic XDP can't be active at the same time"); return -EEXIST; + } if ((flags & XDP_FLAGS_UPDATE_IF_NOEXIST) && - __dev_xdp_query(dev, bpf_op, query)) + __dev_xdp_query(dev, bpf_op, query)) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "XDP program already attached"); return -EBUSY; + } prog = bpf_prog_get_type_dev(fd, BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP, bpf_op == ops->ndo_bpf); -- 2.16.1