netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] ethtool: add interface to interact with Ethernet Power Equipment

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Message-ID: <Ywpkqt2pDmpzXWWn@lunn.ch>
Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:38:34 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        David Jander <david@...tonic.nl>,
        Luka Perkov <luka.perkov@...tura.hr>,
        Robert Marko <robert.marko@...tura.hr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] ethtool: add interface to interact with
 Ethernet Power Equipment

> +static int pse_set_pse_config(struct net_device *dev,
> +			      struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
> +			      struct nlattr **tb)
> +{
> +	struct phy_device *phydev = dev->phydev;
> +	struct pse_control_config config = {};
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (!tb[ETHTOOL_A_PODL_PSE_ADMIN_CONTROL])
> +		return -EINVAL;

I would make use of extack here, and report what is missing.

> +
> +	config.admin_cotrol = nla_get_u8(tb[ETHTOOL_A_PODL_PSE_ADMIN_CONTROL]);

It would be good to have some basic validation here, make sure user
space has passed a reasonable value.

You should also define what 0 and
ETHTOOL_A_PODL_PSE_ADMIN_CONTROL_UNKNOWN means here when passed in. In
future, there could be additional things which could be configured, so
struct pse_control_config gets additional members.
ETHTOOL_A_PODL_PSE_ADMIN_CONTROL appears to be mandatory, you return
-EVINAL if missing, so if you don't want to change it, but change some
other new thing, maybe 0 should be passed here? And the driver should
not consider it an error?  ETHTOOL_A_PODL_PSE_ADMIN_CONTROL_UNKNOWN
however seems invalid and so should be rejected here?

	Andrew