netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: Fix out-of-bounds copy to user

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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 10:59:25 -0700
From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Ding Hui <dinghui@...gfor.com.cn>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, davem@...emloft.net, 
	edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pengdonglin@...gfor.com.cn, 
	huangcun@...gfor.com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: Fix out-of-bounds copy to user

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 10:13 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 23:25:34 +0800 Ding Hui wrote:
> > drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_ethtool.c: .get_sset_count         = nfp_net_get_sset_count,
> > drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_ethtool.c: .get_sset_count         = nfp_port_get_sset_count,
>
> Not sure if your research is accurate, NFP does not change the number
> of stats. The number depends on the device and the FW loaded, but those
> are constant during a lifetime of a netdevice.

Yeah, the value doesn't need to be a constant, it just need to be constant.

So for example in the ixgbe driver I believe we were using the upper
limits on the Tx and Rx queues which last I recall are stored in the
netdev itself.