4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@xxxxxxxxxx> [ 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> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 41cde926cdab6..48ae9c201af46 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs_ethtool.c @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ 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); -- 2.43.0