[PATCH net-next v2 2/6] net: dcb: add new common function for set/del of app/rewr entries

Daniel.Machon at microchip.com Daniel.Machon at microchip.com
Wed Jan 18 05:56:07 PST 2023


 > Petr Machata <petrm at nvidia.com> writes:
> 
> > Daniel Machon <daniel.machon at microchip.com> writes:
> >
> >> In preparation for DCB rewrite. Add a new function for setting and
> >> deleting both app and rewrite entries. Moving this into a separate
> >> function reduces duplicate code, as both type of entries requires the
> >> same set of checks. The function will now iterate through a configurable
> >> nested attribute (app or rewrite attr), validate each attribute and call
> >> the appropriate set- or delete function.
> >>
> >> Note that this function always checks for nla_len(attr_itr) <
> >> sizeof(struct dcb_app), which was only done in dcbnl_ieee_set and not in
> >> dcbnl_ieee_del prior to this patch. This means, that any userspace tool
> >> that used to shove in data < sizeof(struct dcb_app) would now receive
> >> -ERANGE.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Machon <daniel.machon at microchip.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm at nvidia.com>
> 
> ... though, now that I found some issues in 3/6, if you would somehow
> reformat the ?: expression that's now awkwardly split to two unaligned
> lines, that would placate my OCD:
> 
> +               err = dcbnl_app_table_setdel(ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_APP_TABLE],
> +                                            netdev, ops->ieee_setapp ?:
> +                                            dcb_ieee_setapp);

Putting the expression on the same line will violate the 80 char limit.
Does splitting it like that hurt anything - other than your OCD :-P At
least checkpatch didn't complain.

/Daniel

> 
> (and the one other).


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