This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netdev-genl: Set extack and fix error on napi-get to the 6.10-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: netdev-genl-set-extack-and-fix-error-on-napi-get.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8efe88df199c285fa1fb7c25ffdd492eb657d474 Author: Joe Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Aug 31 12:17:04 2024 +0000 netdev-genl: Set extack and fix error on napi-get [ Upstream commit 4e3a024b437ec0aee82550cc66a0f4e1a7a88a67 ] In commit 27f91aaf49b3 ("netdev-genl: Add netlink framework functions for napi"), when an invalid NAPI ID is specified the return value -EINVAL is used and no extack is set. Change the return value to -ENOENT and set the extack. Before this commit: $ ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml \ --do napi-get --json='{"id": 451}' Netlink error: Invalid argument nl_len = 36 (20) nl_flags = 0x100 nl_type = 2 error: -22 After this commit: $ ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml \ --do napi-get --json='{"id": 451}' Netlink error: No such file or directory nl_len = 44 (28) nl_flags = 0x300 nl_type = 2 error: -2 extack: {'bad-attr': '.id'} Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240831121707.17562-1-jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/core/netdev-genl.c b/net/core/netdev-genl.c index 05f9515d2c05c..a17d7eaeb0019 100644 --- a/net/core/netdev-genl.c +++ b/net/core/netdev-genl.c @@ -216,10 +216,12 @@ int netdev_nl_napi_get_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) rtnl_lock(); napi = napi_by_id(napi_id); - if (napi) + if (napi) { err = netdev_nl_napi_fill_one(rsp, napi, info); - else - err = -EINVAL; + } else { + NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(info->extack, info->attrs[NETDEV_A_NAPI_ID]); + err = -ENOENT; + } rtnl_unlock();