This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5e: Correctly report errors for ethtool rx flows to the 6.6-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-correctly-report-errors-for-ethtool-rx-flo.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 61442255cd8ad450052df8f0330b8b80755918e5 Author: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 8 17:41:05 2024 +0300 net/mlx5e: Correctly report errors for ethtool rx flows [ Upstream commit cbc796be1779c4dbc9a482c7233995e2a8b6bfb3 ] 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 <cratiu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240808144107.2095424-5-tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 3eccdadc03578..773624bb2c5d5 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);