linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: ethtool: avoid rebuilds on UTS

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:42:44 +0100
From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: ethtool: avoid rebuilds on UTS_RELEASE change

Currently, when you switch between branches or something like that and
rebuild, net/ethtool/ioctl.c has to be built again because it depends
on UTS_RELEASE.

By instead referencing a string variable stored in another object file,
this can be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
---
(alternatively we could also use the utsname info from the current UTS
namespace, but that'd be a bit of a behavior change, and I wanted to
keep this change a no-op)

 net/ethtool/ioctl.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
index 7519b0818b91..575642b3070e 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <linux/net.h>
 #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
+#include <linux/utsname.h>
 #include <net/devlink.h>
 #include <net/ipv6.h>
 #include <net/xdp_sock_drv.h>
 #include <net/flow_offload.h>
 #include <linux/ethtool_netlink.h>
-#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
 #include "common.h"
 
 /* State held across locks and calls for commands which have devlink fallback */
@@ -713,7 +713,8 @@ ethtool_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_devlink_compat *rsp)
 	struct device *parent = dev->dev.parent;
 
 	rsp->info.cmd = ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO;
-	strscpy(rsp->info.version, UTS_RELEASE, sizeof(rsp->info.version));
+	strscpy(rsp->info.version, init_uts_ns.name.release,
+		sizeof(rsp->info.version));
 	if (ops->get_drvinfo) {
 		ops->get_drvinfo(dev, &rsp->info);
 		if (!rsp->info.bus_info[0] && parent)
-- 
2.44.0.rc0.258.g7320e95886-goog