diff mbox series

[net-next,v4,1/8] net: ethtool: Set the req_info->dev on DUMP requests for each dev

Message ID 20250324104012.367366-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
Headers show
Series net: ethtool: Introduce ethnl dump helpers | expand

Checks

Context Check Description
netdev/series_format success Posting correctly formatted
netdev/tree_selection success Clearly marked for net-next
netdev/ynl success Generated files up to date; no warnings/errors; no diff in generated;
netdev/fixes_present success Fixes tag not required for -next series
netdev/header_inline success No static functions without inline keyword in header files
netdev/build_32bit success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/build_tools success No tools touched, skip
netdev/cc_maintainers success CCed 7 of 7 maintainers
netdev/build_clang success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/verify_signedoff success Signed-off-by tag matches author and committer
netdev/deprecated_api success None detected
netdev/check_selftest success No net selftest shell script
netdev/verify_fixes success No Fixes tag
netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/checkpatch success total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 7 lines checked
netdev/build_clang_rust success No Rust files in patch. Skipping build
netdev/kdoc success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/source_inline success Was 0 now: 0
netdev/contest success net-next-2025-03-24--15-00 (tests: 896)

Commit Message

Maxime Chevallier March 24, 2025, 10:40 a.m. UTC
There are a few netlink commands that rely on the req_info->dev field
being populated by ethnl in their ->prepare_data() and ->fill_reply().

For a regular GET request, this will be set by ethnl_default_parse(),
which calls ethnl_parse_header_dev_get().

In the case of a DUMP request, the ->prepare_data() and ->fill_reply()
callbacks will be called with the req_info->dev being NULL, which can
cause discrepancies in the behaviour between GET and DUMP results.

The main impact is that ethnl_req_get_phydev() will not find any
phy_device, impacting :
 - plca
 - pse-pd
 - stats

Some other commands rely on req_info->dev, namely :
 - coalesce in ->fill_reply to look for an irq_moder

Although cable_test and tunnels also rely on req_info->dev being set,
that's not a problem for these commands as :
 - cable_test doesn't support DUMP
 - tunnels rolls its own ->dumpit (and sets dev in the req_info).
 - phy also has its own ->dumpit

All other commands use reply_data->dev (probably the correct way of
doing things) and aren't facing this issue.

Simply set the dev in the req_info context when iterating to dump each
dev.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
---
V4 : New patch (was sent separaltely once)

 net/ethtool/netlink.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Kory Maincent March 25, 2025, 11:03 a.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:40:03 +0100
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> wrote:

> There are a few netlink commands that rely on the req_info->dev field
> being populated by ethnl in their ->prepare_data() and ->fill_reply().
> 
> For a regular GET request, this will be set by ethnl_default_parse(),
> which calls ethnl_parse_header_dev_get().
> 
> In the case of a DUMP request, the ->prepare_data() and ->fill_reply()
> callbacks will be called with the req_info->dev being NULL, which can
> cause discrepancies in the behaviour between GET and DUMP results.
> 
> The main impact is that ethnl_req_get_phydev() will not find any
> phy_device, impacting :
>  - plca
>  - pse-pd
>  - stats
> 
> Some other commands rely on req_info->dev, namely :
>  - coalesce in ->fill_reply to look for an irq_moder
> 
> Although cable_test and tunnels also rely on req_info->dev being set,
> that's not a problem for these commands as :
>  - cable_test doesn't support DUMP
>  - tunnels rolls its own ->dumpit (and sets dev in the req_info).
>  - phy also has its own ->dumpit
> 
> All other commands use reply_data->dev (probably the correct way of
> doing things) and aren't facing this issue.
> 
> Simply set the dev in the req_info context when iterating to dump each
> dev.

Tested-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>

Thank you, this fixes the PSE dump!

Regards,
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.c b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
index a163d40c6431..6b1725795435 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/netlink.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
@@ -591,6 +591,7 @@  static int ethnl_default_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		dev_hold(dev);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 
+		ctx->req_info->dev = dev;
 		ret = ethnl_default_dump_one(skb, dev, ctx, genl_info_dump(cb));
 
 		rcu_read_lock();