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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:50:16 +0000 From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org To: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com> Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, geert@...ux-m68k.org, madalin.bucur@....com, edumazet@...gle.com, camelia.groza@....com, kuba@...nel.org, andrew@...n.ch, afd@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, madalin.bucur@....nxp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: fman: Use physical address for userspace interfaces Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master) by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>: On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:50:41 -0400 you wrote: > Before 262f2b782e25 ("net: fman: Map the base address once"), the > physical address of the MAC was exposed to userspace in two places: via > sysfs and via SIOCGIFMAP. While this is not best practice, it is an > external ABI which is in use by userspace software. > > The aforementioned commit inadvertently modified these addresses and > made them virtual. This constitutes and ABI break. Additionally, it > leaks the kernel's memory layout to userspace. Partially revert that > commit, reintroducing the resource back into struct mac_device, while > keeping the intended changes (the rework of the address mapping). > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [net,v2] net: fman: Use physical address for userspace interfaces https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/c99f0f7e6837 You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html
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