This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ethtool: don't propagate EOPNOTSUPP from dumps
to the 6.1-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:
ethtool-don-t-propagate-eopnotsupp-from-dumps.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e5e3d5fd00ba6004228b46e43f6ee0e8588c8fa3
Author: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Nov 26 14:58:06 2023 -0800
ethtool: don't propagate EOPNOTSUPP from dumps
[ Upstream commit cbeb989e41f4094f54bec2cecce993f26f547bea ]
The default dump handler needs to clear ret before returning.
Otherwise if the last interface returns an inconsequential
error this error will propagate to user space.
This may confuse user space (ethtool CLI seems to ignore it,
but YNL doesn't). It will also terminate the dump early
for mutli-skb dump, because netlink core treats EOPNOTSUPP
as a real error.
Fixes: 728480f12442 ("ethtool: default handlers for GET requests")
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231126225806.2143528-1-kuba@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.c b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
index 1a4c11356c96c..fc4ccecf9495c 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/netlink.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ static int ethnl_default_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb,
cont:
idx++;
}
-
+ ret = 0;
}
rtnl_unlock();
