This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5e: Fix error path for ethtool set-priv-flag to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5e-fix-error-path-for-ethtool-set-priv-flag.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4777148cb05a373aab17a66152b6ccfb6fe8c1f2 Author: Aya Levin <ayal@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 11 17:46:35 2021 +0200 net/mlx5e: Fix error path for ethtool set-priv-flag [ Upstream commit 4eacfe72e3e037e3fc019113df32c39a705148c2 ] Expose error value when failing to comply to command: $ ethtool --set-priv-flags eth2 rx_cqe_compress [on/off] Fixes: be7e87f92b58 ("net/mlx5e: Fail safe cqe compressing/moderation mode setting") Signed-off-by: Aya Levin <ayal@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c index fdf5afc8b058..c9d01e705ab2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c @@ -1876,6 +1876,7 @@ static int set_pflag_rx_cqe_compress(struct net_device *netdev, { struct mlx5e_priv *priv = netdev_priv(netdev); struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev = priv->mdev; + int err; if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(mdev, cqe_compression)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; @@ -1885,7 +1886,10 @@ static int set_pflag_rx_cqe_compress(struct net_device *netdev, return -EINVAL; } - mlx5e_modify_rx_cqe_compression_locked(priv, enable); + err = mlx5e_modify_rx_cqe_compression_locked(priv, enable); + if (err) + return err; + priv->channels.params.rx_cqe_compress_def = enable; return 0;