netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] ethtool: provide UAPI for PHY master/slave configuration.

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Date:   Mon, 4 May 2020 10:37:34 +0200
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        David Jander <david@...tonic.nl>, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, mkl@...gutronix.de,
        Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        Christian Herber <christian.herber@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] ethtool: provide UAPI for PHY master/slave
 configuration.

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:04:17AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> @Michal,
> 
> i noticed that linkmodes_fill_reply() some times get not enough
> tailroom.
> if data->peer_empty == 0
> linkmodes_reply_size() size: 476
> linkmodes_fill_reply() skb tailroom: 724
> 
> 
> if data->peer_empty == 1
> linkmodes_reply_size() size: 216                                      
> linkmodes_fill_reply() skb tailroom: 212
> 
> In the last case i won't be able to attach master_lave state and cfg
> fields.
> 
> It looks like this issue was not introduced by my patches. May be you
> have idea, what is missing?

It's my mistake, I'm just not sure why I never ran into this while
testing. Please try the patch below.

Michal

diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.c b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
index 0c772318c023..ed5357210193 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/netlink.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static int ethnl_default_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	ret = ops->reply_size(req_info, reply_data);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto err_cleanup;
-	reply_len = ret;
+	reply_len = ret + ethnl_reply_header_size();
 	ret = -ENOMEM;
 	rskb = ethnl_reply_init(reply_len, req_info->dev, ops->reply_cmd,
 				ops->hdr_attr, info, &reply_payload);
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ static void ethnl_default_notify(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int cmd,
 	ret = ops->reply_size(req_info, reply_data);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto err_cleanup;
-	reply_len = ret;
+	reply_len = ret + ethnl_reply_header_size();
 	ret = -ENOMEM;
 	skb = genlmsg_new(reply_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!skb)
diff --git a/net/ethtool/strset.c b/net/ethtool/strset.c
index 95eae5c68a52..0eed4e4909ab 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/strset.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/strset.c
@@ -324,7 +324,6 @@ static int strset_reply_size(const struct ethnl_req_info *req_base,
 	int len = 0;
 	int ret;
 
-	len += ethnl_reply_header_size();
 	for (i = 0; i < ETH_SS_COUNT; i++) {
 		const struct strset_info *set_info = &data->sets[i];