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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-06-09 14:53:31 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2023-06-12 11:32:45 +0100
commit500e1340d1d2695de3f15fc0b3781f593a77acc2 (patch)
tree4d86ba36fb3a24593be237c151aad15439d1bea8 /net/ethtool/netlink.c
parent5ab8c41cef30d8b6160a80b69d2eb39d570491ac (diff)
net: ethtool: don't require empty header nests
Ethtool currently requires a header nest (which is used to carry the common family options) in all requests including dumps. $ cli.py --spec netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml --dump channels-get lib.ynl.NlError: Netlink error: Invalid argument nl_len = 64 (48) nl_flags = 0x300 nl_type = 2 error: -22 extack: {'msg': 'request header missing'} $ cli.py --spec netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml --dump channels-get \ --json '{"header":{}}'; ) [{'combined-count': 1, 'combined-max': 1, 'header': {'dev-index': 2, 'dev-name': 'enp1s0'}}] Requiring the header nest to always be there may seem nice from the consistency perspective, but it's not serving any practical purpose. We shouldn't burden the user like this. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ethtool/netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ethtool/netlink.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.c b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
index 08120095cc68..5dd5e8222c45 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/netlink.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ int ethnl_parse_header_dev_get(struct ethnl_req_info *req_info,
int ret;
if (!header) {
+ if (!require_dev)
+ return 0;
NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "request header missing");
return -EINVAL;
}