[xdp-hints] Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 18/21] net: make vlan_get_tag() return -ENODATA instead of -EINVAL

[Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>]

On 07/19, Larysa Zaremba wrote:
> __vlan_hwaccel_get_tag() is used in veth XDP hints implementation,
> its return value (-EINVAL if skb is not VLAN tagged) is passed to bpf code,
> but XDP hints specification requires drivers to return -ENODATA, if a hint
> cannot be provided for a particular packet.
> 
> Solve this inconsistency by changing error return value of
> __vlan_hwaccel_get_tag() from -EINVAL to -ENODATA, do the same thing to
> __vlan_get_tag(), because this function is supposed to follow the same
> convention. This, in turn, makes -ENODATA the only non-zero value
> vlan_get_tag() can return. We can do this with no side effects, because
> none of the users of the 3 above-mentioned functions rely on the exact
> value.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>

> ---
>  include/linux/if_vlan.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/if_vlan.h b/include/linux/if_vlan.h
> index 6ba71957851e..fb35d7dd77a2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/if_vlan.h
> +++ b/include/linux/if_vlan.h
> @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ static inline int __vlan_get_tag(const struct sk_buff *skb, u16 *vlan_tci)
>  	struct vlan_ethhdr *veth = skb_vlan_eth_hdr(skb);
>  
>  	if (!eth_type_vlan(veth->h_vlan_proto))
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		return -ENODATA;
>  
>  	*vlan_tci = ntohs(veth->h_vlan_TCI);
>  	return 0;
> @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ static inline int __vlan_hwaccel_get_tag(const struct sk_buff *skb,
>  		return 0;
>  	} else {
>  		*vlan_tci = 0;
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		return -ENODATA;
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.41.0
>