linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] net: ethtool: netlink: Allow per-netdevice DUMP operations

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Message-ID: <20250325141507.4a223b03@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:15:07 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
Cc: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>, Herve Codina
 <herve.codina@...tlin.com>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
 Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Vladimir Oltean
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 Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@...tlin.com>,
 Piergiorgio Beruto <piergiorgio.beruto@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] net: ethtool: netlink: Allow
 per-netdevice DUMP operations

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:27:06 +0100 Kory Maincent wrote:
> > @@ -636,10 +659,10 @@ static int ethnl_default_start(struct netlink_callback
> > *cb) }
> >  
> >  	ret = ethnl_default_parse(req_info, &info->info, ops, false);
> > -	if (req_info->dev) {
> > -		/* We ignore device specification in dump requests but as the
> > -		 * same parser as for non-dump (doit) requests is used, it
> > -		 * would take reference to the device if it finds one
> > +	if (req_info->dev && !ops->allow_pernetdev_dump) {
> > +		/* We ignore device specification in unfiltered dump requests
> > +		 * but as the same parser as for non-dump (doit) requests is
> > +		 * used, it would take reference to the device if it finds  
> 
> This means the dump will have a different behavior in case of filtered dump
> (allow_pernetdev_dump) or standard dump.
> The standard dump will drop the interface device so it will dump all interfaces
> even if one is specified.
> The filtered dump will dump only the specified interface. 
> Maybe it would be nice to have the same behavior for the dump for all the
> ethtool command.
> Even if this change modify the behavior of the dump for all the ethtool commands
> it won't be an issue as the filtered dump did not exist before, so I suppose it
> won't break anything. IMHO it is safer to do it now than later, if existing
> ethtool command adds support for filtered dump.
> We should find another way to know the parser is called from dump or doit.

Let's try. We can probably make required_dev attr of
ethnl_parse_header_dev_get() a three state one: require, allow, reject?

Part of the problem is that ethtool is not converted to split ops, so
do and dump share the same parsing policy. But that's too painful to
fix now, I think.
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