netdev - Re: [PATCH net] devlink: ignore -EOPNOTSUPP errors on dumpit

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Date:   Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:52:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, jiri@...lanox.com,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] devlink: ignore -EOPNOTSUPP errors on dumpit

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:15:07 -0700

> Number of .dumpit functions try to ignore -EOPNOTSUPP errors.
> Recent change missed that, and started reporting all errors
> but -EMSGSIZE back from dumps. This leads to situation like
> this:
> 
> $ devlink dev info
> devlink answers: Operation not supported
> 
> Dump should not report an error just because the last device
> to be queried could not provide an answer.
> 
> To fix this and avoid similar confusion make sure we clear
> err properly, and not leave it set to an error if we don't
> terminate the iteration.
> 
> Fixes: c62c2cfb801b ("net: devlink: don't ignore errors during dumpit")
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.