RE: [PATCH v3 3/4] vdpa: show dev config as-is in "vdpa dev show" output

From: Eli Cohen
Date: Sun Oct 30 2022 - 09:36:55 EST


> From: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2022 2:24
> To: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>; Eli Cohen <elic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: mst@xxxxxxxxxx; Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Cindy
> Lu <lulu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] vdpa: show dev config as-is in "vdpa dev show"
> output
>
>
>
> On 10/27/2022 1:47 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 2:31 PM Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/25/2022 9:44 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>> 在 2022/10/26 09:10, Si-Wei Liu 写道:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/24/2022 7:24 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 3:14 AM Si-Wei Liu<si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> On 10/24/2022 1:40 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 7:49 AM Si-Wei Liu<si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Live migration of vdpa would typically require re-instate vdpa
> >>>>>>>> device with an idential set of configs on the destination node,
> >>>>>>>> same way as how source node created the device in the first
> >>>>>>>> place. In order to save orchestration software from memorizing
> >>>>>>>> and keeping track of vdpa config, it will be helpful if the vdpa
> >>>>>>>> tool provides the aids for exporting the initial configs as-is,
> >>>>>>>> the way how vdpa device was created. The "vdpa dev show"
> command
> >>>>>>>> seems to be the right vehicle for that. It is unlike the "vdpa dev
> >>>>>>>> config show" command output which usually goes with the live value
> >>>>>>>> in the device config space, and is not quite reliable subject to
> >>>>>>>> the dynamics of feature negotiation or possible change by the
> >>>>>>>> driver to the config space.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Examples:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 1) Create vDPA by default without any config attribute
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> $ vdpa dev add mgmtdev pci/0000:41:04.2 name vdpa0
> >>>>>>>> $ vdpa dev show vdpa0
> >>>>>>>> vdpa0: type network mgmtdev pci/0000:41:04.2 vendor_id 5555
> >>>>>>>> max_vqs 9 max_vq_size 256
> >>>>>>>> $ vdpa dev -jp show vdpa0
> >>>>>>>> {
> >>>>>>>> "dev": {
> >>>>>>>> "vdpa0": {
> >>>>>>>> "type": "network",
> >>>>>>>> "mgmtdev": "pci/0000:41:04.2",
> >>>>>>>> "vendor_id": 5555,
> >>>>>>>> "max_vqs": 9,
> >>>>>>>> "max_vq_size": 256,
> >>>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 2) Create vDPA with config attribute(s) specified
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> $ vdpa dev add mgmtdev pci/0000:41:04.2 name vdpa0 \
> >>>>>>>> mac e4:11:c6:d3:45:f0 max_vq_pairs 4
> >>>>>>>> $ vdpa dev show
> >>>>>>>> vdpa0: type network mgmtdev pci/0000:41:04.2 vendor_id 5555
> >>>>>>>> max_vqs 9 max_vq_size 256
> >>>>>>>> initial_config: mac e4:11:c6:d3:45:f0 max_vq_pairs 4
> >>>>>>>> $ vdpa dev -jp show
> >>>>>>>> {
> >>>>>>>> "dev": {
> >>>>>>>> "vdpa0": {
> >>>>>>>> "type": "network",
> >>>>>>>> "mgmtdev": "pci/0000:41:04.2",
> >>>>>>>> "vendor_id": 5555,
> >>>>>>>> "max_vqs": 9,
> >>>>>>>> "max_vq_size": 256,
> >>>>>>>> "initial_config": {
> >>>>>>>> "mac": "e4:11:c6:d3:45:f0",
> >>>>>>>> "max_vq_pairs": 4
> >>>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Si-Wei Liu<si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>>> drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 39
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> >>>>>>>> index bebded6..bfb8f54 100644
> >>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> >>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> >>>>>>>> @@ -677,6 +677,41 @@ static int
> >>>>>>>> vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_del_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
> >>>>>>>> genl_info *i
> >>>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> static int
> >>>>>>>> +vdpa_dev_initcfg_fill(struct vdpa_device *vdev, struct sk_buff
> >>>>>>>> *msg, u32 device_id)
> >>>>>>>> +{
> >>>>>>>> + struct vdpa_dev_set_config *cfg = &vdev->init_cfg;
> >>>>>>>> + int err = -EMSGSIZE;
> >>>>>>>> +
> >>>>>>>> + if (!cfg->mask)
> >>>>>>>> + return 0;
> >>>>>>>> +
> >>>>>>>> + switch (device_id) {
> >>>>>>>> + case VIRTIO_ID_NET:
> >>>>>>>> + if ((cfg->mask &
> >>>>>>>> BIT_ULL(VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MACADDR)) != 0 &&
> >>>>>>>> + nla_put(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MACADDR,
> >>>>>>>> + sizeof(cfg->net.mac), cfg->net.mac))
> >>>>>>>> + return err;
> >>>>>>>> + if ((cfg->mask &
> >>>>>>>> BIT_ULL(VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MTU)) != 0 &&
> >>>>>>>> + nla_put_u16(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MTU,
> >>>>>>>> cfg->net.mtu))
> >>>>>>>> + return err;
> >>>>>>>> + if ((cfg->mask &
> >>>>>>>> BIT_ULL(VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MAX_VQP)) != 0 &&
> >>>>>>>> + nla_put_u16(msg,
> VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MAX_VQP,
> >>>>>>>> + cfg->net.max_vq_pairs))
> >>>>>>>> + return err;
> >>>>>>>> + break;
> >>>>>>>> + default:
> >>>>>>>> + break;
> >>>>>>>> + }
> >>>>>>>> +
> >>>>>>>> + if ((cfg->mask & BIT_ULL(VDPA_ATTR_DEV_FEATURES)) != 0
> &&
> >>>>>>>> + nla_put_u64_64bit(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_FEATURES,
> >>>>>>>> + cfg->device_features, VDPA_ATTR_PAD))
> >>>>>>>> + return err;
> >>>>>>> A question: If any of those above attributes were not provisioned,
> >>>>>>> should we show the ones that are inherited from the parent?
> >>>>>> A simple answer would be yes, but the long answer is that I am not
> >>>>>> sure
> >>>>>> if there's any for the moment - there's no default value for mtu,
> >>>>>> mac,
> >>>>>> and max_vqp that can be inherited from the parent (max_vqp by
> default
> >>>>>> being 1 is spec defined, not something inherited from the parent).
> >>>>> Note that it is by default from driver level that if _F_MQ is not
> >>>>> negotiated. But I think we are talking about something different that
> >>>>> is out of the spec here, what if:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> vDPA inherit _F_MQ but mqx_vqp is not provisioned via netlink.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Or is it not allowed?
> >>>> My understanding is that this is not allowed any more since the
> >>>> introduction of max_vqp attribute. Noted, currently we don't have a
> >>>> way for vendor driver to report the default value for mqx_vqp,
> >>>
> >>> I think it can be reported in this patch?
> >> Yes, we can add, but I am not sure whether or not this will be
> >> practically useful, for e.g. the same command without max_vqp specified
> >> may render different number of queues across different devices, or
> >> different revisions of the same vendor's devices. Does it complicate the
> >> mgmt software even more, I'm not sure....
> > It depends on the use case, e.g if we want to compare the migration
> > compatibility, having a single vdpa command query is much easier than
> > having two or more.
> Yep I agree. I was saying not very attribute would need to be inherited
> from the parent device. Actually attributes like max_vqp could take the
> default from some common place for e.g. some default value can be
> applied by vdpa core. And we can document these attributes ruled by vdpa
> core in vdpa-dev(8) man page. Reduce the extra call of having mgmt
> software issue another query command which actually doesn't need to.
>
> >
> >> Could we instead mandate
> >> max_vqp to be 1 from vdpa core level if user doesn't explicitly specify
> >> the value?
> > This seems to be not easy, at least not easy in the vDPA core.
> We can load these default values from vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_add_set_doit()
> before ops->dev_add is called. I can post a v3 that shows the code, it
> shouldn't be too hard.
>
> > We can
> > probably document this somewhere but max_vqp is only one example, we
> > have other mq devices like block/SCSI/console.
> Actually max_vqp is a network device specific config to provision mq
> devices. If the parent mgmtdev supports net vdpa device creation and
> user requests to provision _F_MQ with no supplied max_vqp value, we
> should load some global default value there.
>
> >
> >> That way it is more consistent in terms of the resulting
> >> number of queue pairs (=1) with the case where parent device does not
> >> offer the _F_MQ feature.
> > Right, but a corner case is to provision _F_MQ but without max_vqp.
> Yes, I will post the patch that supports this.
> >
> >>>
> >>>> if not otherwise specified in the CLI. Without getting the default
> >>>> value reported in 'vdpa mgmtdev show' level, it'd just confuse mgmt
> >>>> software even more.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, this is something that we need to fix. And what's more in order
> >>> to support dynamic provisioning, we need a way to report the number of
> >>> available instances that could be used for vDPA device provisioning.
> >> Wouldn't it be possible to achieve that by simply checking how many
> >> parent mgmtdev instances don't have vdpa device provisioned yet? e.g.
> >>
> >> inuse=$(vdpa dev show | grep mgmtdev | wc -l)
> >> total=$(vdpa mgmtdev show | grep "supported_classes" | wc -l )
> >> echo $((total - inuse))
> > I meant how many available vDPA devices that are available for the
> > mgmt to create?
> Oh I see.
>
> >
> > E.g in the case of sub function or simulator a mgmtdev can create more
> > than 1 vdpa devices.
> Does the sub function today supports creation of multiple vDPA instance
> per mgmtdev? Something I wasn't aware of before. Is it with different
> device class?
>
> >
> >>>
> >>>>> At least some time in the past, mlx5 were
> >>>>> enabled with MQ with 8 queue pairs by default.
> >>>> That was the situation when there's no max_vqp attribute support from
> >>>> vdpa netlink API level. I think now every driver honors the vdpa core
> >>>> disposition to get a single queue pair if max_vqp config is missing.
> >>> So we have:
> >>>
> >>> int vdpa_register_device(struct vdpa_device *vdev, int nvqs)
> >>>
> >>> This means technically, parent can allocate a multiqueue devices with
> >>> _F_MQ features if max_vqp and device_features is not provisioned. And
> >>> what's more, what happens if _F_MQ is provisioned by max_vqp is not
> >>> specified?
> >>>
> >>> The question is:
> >>>
> >>> When a attribute is not specificed/provisioned via net link, what's
> >>> the default value? The answer should be consistent: if device_features
> >>> is determined by the parent, we should do the same for mqx_vqp.
> >> OK I got your point.
> >>
> >>> And it looks to me all of those belongs to the initial config
> >>> (self-contained)
> >> Right. I wonder if we can have vdpa core define the default value (for
> >> e.g. max_vqp=1) for those unspecified attribute (esp. when the
> >> corresponding device feature is offered and provisioned) whenever
> >> possible. Which I think it'll be more consistent for the same command to
> >> get to the same result between different vendor drivers. While we still
> >> keep the possibility for future extension to allow driver override the
> >> vdpa core disposition if the real use case emerges. What do you think?
> > That's possible but we may end up with device specific code in the
> > vDPA core which is not elegant, and the code will grow as the number
> > of supported types grows.
> I guess that's unavoidable as this is already the case today. See
> various VIRTIO_ID_NET case switch in the vdpa.c code. I think type
> specific code just limits itself to the netlink API interfacing layer
> rather than down to the driver API, it might be just okay (as that's
> already the case).
>
> >
> > Note that, max_vqp is not the only attribute that may suffer from
> > this, basically any config field that depends on a specific feature
> > bit may have the same issue.
> >
> >>>
> >>>> And the mlx5_vdpa driver with 8 queue pairs in the wild days is just
> >>>> irrelevant to be manageable by mgmt software, regardless of live
> >>>> migration.
> >>>>>> And
> >>>>>> the device_features if inherited is displayed at 'vdpa dev config
> >>>>>> show'
> >>>>>> output. Can you remind me of a good example for inherited value
> >>>>>> that we
> >>>>>> may want to show here?
> >>>>> Some other cases:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1) MTU: there should be something that the device needs to report if
> >>>>> _F_MTU is negotiated even if it is not provisioned from netlink.
> >>>> I am not sure I understand the ask here. Noted the QEMU argument has
> >>>> to offer host_mtu=X with the maximum MTU value for guest to use (and
> >>>> applied as the initial MTU config during virtio-net probing for Linux
> >>>> driver),
> >>>
> >>> Adding Cindy.
> >>>
> >>> I think it's a known issue that we need to do sanity check to make
> >>> sure cli parameters matches what is provisioned from netlink.
> >> Right. How's the plan for QEMU to get to the mtu provisioned by netlink,
> >> via a new vhost-vdpa ioctl call?
> > I think netlink is not designed for qemu to use, the design is to
> > expose a vhost device to Qemu.
> >
> >> If so, will QEMU be able to read it
> >> directly from kernel when it comes to the vhost-vdpa backend, without
> >> having user to specify host_mtu from CLI?
> > I'm not sure I get the question, but Qemu should get this via config
> > space (otherwise it should be a bug).
> It's hard for QEMU to work this way with the existing get_config() ops I
> think, as it has assumption around endianness and feature negotiation,
> until the latter is done you can't get any reliable value for
> provisioned property. I think QEMU which need to validate the
> provisioned value way earlier (when QEMU is launched), before
> negotiation kicks in. It would be clearner to use another vhost and a
> new vdpa driver ops to retrieve the provisioned feature config values
> from vendor drivers.
>
> > And Qemu need to verify the mtu
> > got from cli vs the mtu got from vhost and fail the device
> > initialization if they don't match.
> I mean today there's a problem for double provisioning: for e.g. mtu has
> to be first provided in the 'vdpa dev add' command when to provision
> _F_MTU, in QEMU CLI the same value has to be supplied to host_mtu. The
> same applies to mac address. It would be the best we can allow QEMU load
> the provisioned value from vdpa device directly, without having to
> provide extra duplicated configs in QEMU CLI level.
>
> >
> >>>
> >>>> and the way to get the parent device MTU and whether that's relevant
> >>>> to vdpa device's MTU is very vendor specific.
> >>>
> >>> So I think the max MTU of parent should be equal to the max MTU of the
> >>> vDPA.
> >> Noted here the parent might not be necessarily the mgmtdev where vdpa
> >> gets created over. It may well end up with the MTU on the PF (uplink
> >> port) which the mgmt software has to concern with. My point is the
> >> utility and tool chain able to derive the maximal MTU effectively
> >> allowed for vDPA device may live out of vDPA's realm. It's a rare or
> >> even invalid configuration to have vDPA configured with a bigger value
> >> than the MTU on the uplink port or parent device. It's more common when
> >> MTU config is involved, it has to be consistently configured across all
> >> the network links along, from parent device (uplink port) down to the
> >> switchdev representor port, vdpa device, and QEMU virtio-net object.
> > Ok, right.
> >
> >>>
> >>>> I think we would need new attribute(s) in the mgmtdev level to
> >>>> support what you want here?
> >>>
> >>> Not sure, but what I want to ask is consider we provision MTU feature
> >>> but without max MTU value, do we need to report the initial max MTU
> here?
> >> Yep, maybe. I'm not very sure if this will be very useful to be honest,
> >> consider it's kinda a rare case to me were to provision MTU feature
> >> without a specific MTU value. If one cares about MTU, mgmt software
> >> should configure some mtu through "vdpa dev add ... mtu ...", no?
> > Yes, but this only works if all config fields could be provisioned,
> > which seems not the case now, vdpa_dev_set_config is currently a
> > subset of virtio_net_config. So this goes back to the question I
> > raised earlier. Is the time to switch to use virtio_net_config and
> > allow all fields to be provisioned?
> Don't quite get how it will be useful if switching to virtio_net_config.
> I thought we can add the missing fields to vdpa_dev_set_config even now
> to make it match virtio_net_config. Though the reality is there's few
> vdpa device that supports those features now. If any real device
> supports feature field in virtio_net_config but not in
> vdpa_dev_set_config, it can be gradually added so long as needed.
>
> >
> > And even for mtu we're lacking a way to report the maximum MTU allowed
> > by mgmt dev (e.g the uplink MTU via netlink):
> Since MTU is only implemented in mlx5_vdpa by now except for simulators,
> copy Eli to see if this is feasible to implement in real device. I think
> we also need to validate that the mtu configured on vDPA device instance
> shouldn't exceed the uplink MTU (maximum MTU allowed).
>
The interface for querying the physical port operational MTU is in place but does not seem to work properly.
I am trying to get answers on this but it may take as people are in vacation and this coming Tuesday is not a
Working day in Israel (elections).

> > 1) report the maximum host mtu supported by the mgmtdev via netlink
> > (not done, so management needs to guess the maximum value now)
> > 2) allow mtu to be provisioned (done)
> > 3) show initial mtu (done by this patch)
> So I wonder is it fine for vdpa core to come up with a default value for
> MTU when _F_MTU feature is to be provisioned or inherited? If we mandate
> each vDPA vendor to support at least the standard 1500 MTU for _F_MTU
> feature, we can make it default to 1500.
>
> Otherwise the vDPA has to be taken (inherited) from the parent device.
> Unfortunately, right now for mlx5_vdpa, the parent mgmtdev device has
> 1500 MTU by default regardless of the MTU on the uplink port, and I'm
> not sure if it's a right model to enforce mgmtdev go with uplink port's
> MTU. I would need to hear what vendors say about this requirement.
>
> >
> > We probably need to do the above for all fields to be self-contained.
> Agreed on the part of being self-contained.
>
> >
> >> On the other hand, no mtu value specified may mean "go with what the
> >> uplink port or parent device has". I think this is a pretty useful case
> >> if the vendor's NIC supports updating MTU on the fly without having to
> >> tear down QEMU and reconfigure vdpa. I'm not sure if we end up with
> >> killing this use case by limiting initial max MTU to a fixed value.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>> 2) device_features: if device_features is not provisioned, we should
> >>>>> still report it via netlink here
> >>>> Not the way I expected it, but with Lingshan's series to expose
> >>>> fields out of FEATURES_OK, the device_features is now reported
> >>>> through 'vdpa dev config show' regardless being specified or not, if
> >>>> I am not mistaken?
> >>>
> >>> Yes.
> >> Do you want me to relocate to 'vdpa dev show', or it's okay to leave it
> >> behind there?
> > It's probably too late for the relocation but I feel it's better to
> > place all the initial/inherited attributes into a single command even
> > if some of them are already somewhere in another command, but we can
> > hear from others.
> Ok, that'll be fine. I supposed mgmt software should only query through
> "mgmtdev show" or "dev show", avoiding any query via"dev config show".
> It'd be the best to get all of the compatibility related info
> consolidated in one single place. Let me try to include it in "dev show".
>
> >
> >>>
> >>>> Currently we export the config attributes upon vdpa creation under
> >>>> the "initial_config" key. If we want to expose more default values
> >>>> inherited from mgmtdev, I think we can wrap up these default values
> >>>> under another key "inherited_config" to display in 'vdpa dev show'
> >>>> output. Does it fit what you have in mind?
> >>>
> >>> I wonder if it's better to merge those two, or is there any advantages
> >>> of splitting them?
> >> I think for the most part "initial_config" will be sufficient for those
> >> config attributes with "vdpa dev add" equivalents, be it user specified,
> >> vdpa enforced default if missing user input, or default overridden by
> >> the parent device. "inherited_config" will be useful for the configs
> >> with no "vdpa dev add" equivalent or live out side of vdpa tool, but
> >> still important for mgmt software to replicate identical vdpa setup.
> >> Like max-supported-mtu (for the uplink port or parent device),
> >> effective-link-speed, effective-link-status et al. Let's see if there's
> >> more when we get there.
> > So one point I can see is that, if there's no difference from the
> > userpsace perspective, we'd better merge them. And I don't see any
> > difference between the initial versus inherited from the view of user
> > space. Do you?
> So the major difference is "initial_config" is settable and equivalent
> to the config attribute in "vdpa dev add" command, while
> "inherited_config" is the read-only fields from "mgmtdev show" that does
> not correspond to any "vdpa dev add" vdpa attribute. That way the mgmt
> software can use the "initial_config" directly to recreate vdpa with
> identical device config, while using the "inherited_config" to replicate
> the other configs out of vdpa, for e.g. set uplink port's MTU to 9000.
> Maybe there's no need to fold such info into an "inherited_config" key?
> though I just want to make it relevant to migration compatibility. Any
> suggestion for the name or layout?
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Siwei
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> -Siwei
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>> or do you mean the mgmt can assume it
> >>>>> should be the same as mgmtdev. Anyhow if we don't show
> device_features
> >>>>> if it is not provisioned, it will complicate the mgmt software.
> >>>> Yes, as I said earlier, since the device_features attr getting added
> >>>> to the 'vdpa dev config show' command, this divergence started to
> >>>> complicate mgmt software already.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> -Siwei
> >>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>> -Siwei
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> +
> >>>>>>>> + return 0;
> >>>>>>>> +}
> >>>>>>>> +
> >>>>>>>> +static int
> >>>>>>>> vdpa_dev_fill(struct vdpa_device *vdev, struct sk_buff *msg,
> >>>>>>>> u32 portid, u32 seq,
> >>>>>>>> int flags, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
> >>>>>>>> {
> >>>>>>>> @@ -715,6 +750,10 @@ static int
> >>>>>>>> vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_del_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
> >>>>>>>> genl_info *i
> >>>>>>>> if (nla_put_u16(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_MIN_VQ_SIZE,
> >>>>>>>> min_vq_size))
> >>>>>>>> goto msg_err;
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> + err = vdpa_dev_initcfg_fill(vdev, msg, device_id);
> >>>>>>>> + if (err)
> >>>>>>>> + goto msg_err;
> >>>>>>>> +
> >>>>>>>> genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
> >>>>>>>> return 0;
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>> 1.8.3.1
> >>>>>>>>