netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: don't propagate EOPNOTSUPP from dumps

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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:48:18 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	pabeni@...hat.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, mkubecek@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: don't propagate EOPNOTSUPP from dumps

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 02:58:06PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> The default dump handler needs to clear ret before returning.
> Otherwise if the last interface returns an inconsequential
> error this error will propagate to user space.
> 
> This may confuse user space (ethtool CLI seems to ignore it,
> but YNL doesn't). It will also terminate the dump early
> for mutli-skb dump, because netlink core treats EOPNOTSUPP
> as a real error.
> 
> Fixes: 728480f12442 ("ethtool: default handlers for GET requests")
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>