net/sched: act_api: Notify user space if any actions were flushed before error
authorVictor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:07:41 +0000 (11:07 -0300)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 04:51:23 +0000 (21:51 -0700)
commit76b39b94382f9e0a639e1c70c3253de248cc4c83
tree4aa5250f647f54598b6f26305805add2acbe635c
parent8ee9d82cd0a45e7d050ade598c9f33032a0f2891
net/sched: act_api: Notify user space if any actions were flushed before error

If during an action flush operation one of the actions is still being
referenced, the flush operation is aborted and the kernel returns to
user space with an error. However, if the kernel was able to flush, for
example, 3 actions and failed on the fourth, the kernel will not notify
user space that it deleted 3 actions before failing.

This patch fixes that behaviour by notifying user space of how many
actions were deleted before flush failed and by setting extack with a
message describing what happened.

Fixes: 55334a5db5cd ("net_sched: act: refuse to remove bound action outside")
Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/sched/act_api.c