netdev - [PATCH net] ethtool: fix ethtool msg len calculation for pause stats

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Date:   Mon,  1 Nov 2021 21:21:20 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, saeedm@...dia.com, mkubecek@...e.cz,
        andrew@...n.ch, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] ethtool: fix ethtool msg len calculation for pause stats

ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_MAX is the MAX attribute id,
so we need to subtract non-stats and add one to
get a count (IOW -2+1 == -1).

Otherwise we'll see:

  ethnl cmd 21: calculated reply length 40, but consumed 52

Fixes: 9a27a33027f2 ("ethtool: add standard pause stats")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
---
 net/ethtool/pause.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ethtool/pause.c b/net/ethtool/pause.c
index 9009f412151e..c9171234130b 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/pause.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/pause.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static int pause_reply_size(const struct ethnl_req_info *req_base,
 	if (req_base->flags & ETHTOOL_FLAG_STATS)
 		n += nla_total_size(0) +	/* _PAUSE_STATS */
 			nla_total_size_64bit(sizeof(u64)) *
-				(ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_MAX - 2);
+				(ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_MAX - 1);
 	return n;
 }
 
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