linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.0 048/139] RDMA/ipoib: Allow user space differentiate between valid dev

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Date:   Thu, 23 May 2019 21:05:36 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.0 048/139] RDMA/ipoib: Allow user space differentiate between valid dev_port

From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>

commit b79656ed44c6865e17bcd93472ec39488bcc4984 upstream.

Systemd triggers the following warning during IPoIB device load:

 mlx5_core 0000:00:0c.0 ib0: "systemd-udevd" wants to know my dev_id.
        Should it look at dev_port instead?
        See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.

This is caused due to user space attempt to differentiate old systems
without dev_port and new systems with dev_port. In case dev_port will be
zero, the systemd will try to read dev_id instead.

There is no need to print a warning in such case, because it is valid
situation and it is needed to ensure systemd compatibility with old
kernels.

Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#L358
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.19
Fixes: f6350da41dc7 ("IB/ipoib: Log sysfs 'dev_id' accesses from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -2402,7 +2402,18 @@ static ssize_t dev_id_show(struct device
 {
 	struct net_device *ndev = to_net_dev(dev);
 
-	if (ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port)
+	/*
+	 * ndev->dev_port will be equal to 0 in old kernel prior to commit
+	 * 9b8b2a323008 ("IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface
+	 * port numbers") Zero was chosen as special case for user space
+	 * applications to fallback and query dev_id to check if it has
+	 * different value or not.
+	 *
+	 * Don't print warning in such scenario.
+	 *
+	 * https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#L358
+	 */
+	if (ndev->dev_port && ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port)
 		netdev_info_once(ndev,
 			"\"%s\" wants to know my dev_id. Should it look at dev_port instead? See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.\n",
 			current->comm);