net/mlx5e: Correctly report errors for ethtool rx flows

Previously, an ethtool rx flow with no attrs would not be added to the
NIC as it has no rules to configure the hw with, but it would be
reported as successful to the caller (return code 0). This is confusing
for the user as ethtool then reports "Added rule $num", but no rule was
actually added.

This change corrects that by instead reporting these wrong rules as
-EINVAL.

Fixes: b29c61dac3a2 ("net/mlx5e: Ethtool steering flow validation refactoring")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c
index 3eccdadc0357..773624bb2c5d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ mlx5e_ethtool_flow_replace(struct mlx5e_priv *priv,
 	if (num_tuples <= 0) {
 		netdev_warn(priv->netdev, "%s: flow is not valid %d\n",
 			    __func__, num_tuples);
-		return num_tuples;
+		return num_tuples < 0 ? num_tuples : -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	eth_ft = get_flow_table(priv, fs, num_tuples);