seg6_build_state() rejected invalid configurations with a generic -EINVAL, so "ip route add ... encap seg6 ..." always reported "Invalid argument".
Attach an extack message to each of them. The checks themselves and their return values are unchanged. Signed-off-by: Gabriel Goller <[email protected]> --- net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c b/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c index 61c6a27bf202..e7f75970e26e 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c @@ -756,8 +756,12 @@ static int seg6_build_state(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla, struct seg6_lwt *slwt; int err; - if (family != AF_INET && family != AF_INET6) + if (family != AF_INET && family != AF_INET6) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG( + extack, + "unsupported address family for SRv6 encapsulation"); return -EINVAL; + } err = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(tb, SEG6_IPTUNNEL_MAX, nla, seg6_iptunnel_policy, extack); @@ -765,8 +769,10 @@ static int seg6_build_state(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla, if (err < 0) return err; - if (!tb[SEG6_IPTUNNEL_SRH]) + if (!tb[SEG6_IPTUNNEL_SRH]) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "missing SRv6 SRH attribute"); return -EINVAL; + } tuninfo = nla_data(tb[SEG6_IPTUNNEL_SRH]); tuninfo_len = nla_len(tb[SEG6_IPTUNNEL_SRH]); @@ -776,13 +782,18 @@ static int seg6_build_state(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla, */ min_size = sizeof(*tuninfo) + sizeof(struct ipv6_sr_hdr) + sizeof(struct in6_addr); - if (tuninfo_len < min_size) + if (tuninfo_len < min_size) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "truncated SRv6 SRH attribute"); return -EINVAL; + } switch (tuninfo->mode) { case SEG6_IPTUN_MODE_INLINE: - if (family != AF_INET6) + if (family != AF_INET6) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, + "inline mode requires an IPv6 route"); return -EINVAL; + } if (tb[SEG6_IPTUNNEL_SRC]) { NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "incompatible mode for tunsrc"); @@ -798,12 +809,16 @@ static int seg6_build_state(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla, case SEG6_IPTUN_MODE_L2ENCAP_RED: break; default: + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "invalid SRv6 encapsulation mode"); return -EINVAL; } /* verify that SRH is consistent */ - if (!seg6_validate_srh(tuninfo->srh, tuninfo_len - sizeof(*tuninfo), false)) + if (!seg6_validate_srh(tuninfo->srh, tuninfo_len - sizeof(*tuninfo), + false)) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "invalid SRv6 segment routing header"); return -EINVAL; + } newts = lwtunnel_state_alloc(tuninfo_len + sizeof(*slwt)); if (!newts) -- 2.47.3

