From: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 2/6] netconsole: use the address family instead of the ipv6 flag
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:47:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810-netcons_ipv6-v2-2-3d4fc987a90f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810-netcons_ipv6-v2-0-3d4fc987a90f@gmail.com>
Now that we have the address family in inet_addr, use that and remove
nt->ipv6.
We no longer need netcons_local_ip_unset() to check that all bytes are
zeroes, as that is now denoted by (family == AF_UNSPEC).
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 82 ++++++++++++++----------------------------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 94a662c7369a..070bae7b4fd7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ enum target_state {
* local_mac (read-only)
* @local_ip: Source IP address of the target (read-write).
* @remote_ip: Destination IP address of the target (read-write).
- * @ipv6: Whether the target addresses are IPv6 (read-write).
* @local_port: Source UDP port of the target (read-write).
* @remote_port: Destination UDP port of the target (read-write).
* @remote_mac: Destination ethernet address of the target (read-write).
@@ -213,7 +212,6 @@ struct netconsole_target {
bool release;
struct netpoll np;
struct inet_addr local_ip, remote_ip;
- bool ipv6;
u16 local_port, remote_port;
u8 remote_mac[ETH_ALEN];
/* protected by target_list_lock; +1 gives scnprintf() room for its
@@ -463,23 +461,6 @@ static int netcons_take_ipv4(struct netconsole_target *nt,
return 0;
}
-/*
- * Test whether the caller left nt->local_ip unset, so that
- * netcons_netpoll_setup() should auto-populate it from the egress device.
- *
- * nt->local_ip is a union of __be32 (IPv4) and struct in6_addr (IPv6),
- * so an IPv6 address whose first 4 bytes are zero (e.g. ::1, ::2,
- * IPv4-mapped ::ffff:a.b.c.d) must not be tested via the IPv4 arm —
- * doing so would misclassify a caller-supplied address as unset and
- * silently overwrite it with whatever address the device exposes.
- */
-static bool netcons_local_ip_unset(const struct netconsole_target *nt)
-{
- if (nt->ipv6)
- return ipv6_addr_any(&nt->local_ip.in6);
- return !nt->local_ip.ip;
-}
-
static int netcons_netpoll_setup(struct netconsole_target *nt)
{
struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns;
@@ -525,16 +506,13 @@ static int netcons_netpoll_setup(struct netconsole_target *nt)
rtnl_lock();
}
- if (netcons_local_ip_unset(nt)) {
- if (!nt->ipv6) {
- err = netcons_take_ipv4(nt, ndev);
- if (err)
- goto put;
- } else {
+ if (nt->local_ip.family == AF_UNSPEC) {
+ if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_INET6)
err = netcons_take_ipv6(nt, ndev);
- if (err)
- goto put;
- }
+ else
+ err = netcons_take_ipv4(nt, ndev);
+ if (err)
+ goto put;
ip_overwritten = true;
}
@@ -716,22 +694,22 @@ static void netconsole_print_banner(struct netconsole_target *nt)
struct netpoll *np = &nt->np;
np_info(np, "local port %d\n", nt->local_port);
- if (nt->ipv6)
+ if (nt->local_ip.family == AF_INET6)
np_info(np, "local IPv6 address %pI6c\n", &nt->local_ip.in6);
else
np_info(np, "local IPv4 address %pI4\n", &nt->local_ip.ip);
np_info(np, "interface name '%s'\n", np->dev_name);
np_info(np, "local ethernet address '%pM'\n", np->dev_mac);
np_info(np, "remote port %d\n", nt->remote_port);
- if (nt->ipv6)
+ if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_INET6)
np_info(np, "remote IPv6 address %pI6c\n", &nt->remote_ip.in6);
else
np_info(np, "remote IPv4 address %pI4\n", &nt->remote_ip.ip);
np_info(np, "remote ethernet address %pM\n", nt->remote_mac);
}
-/* Parse the string and populate the `inet_addr` struct. Return 0 if IPv4 is
- * populated, 1 if IPv6 is populated, and -1 upon failure.
+/* Parse the string and populate the `inet_addr` struct. Return 0 on success
+ * and -1 upon failure.
*/
static int netpoll_parse_ip_addr(const char *str, struct inet_addr *addr)
{
@@ -755,7 +733,7 @@ static int netpoll_parse_ip_addr(const char *str, struct inet_addr *addr)
in6_pton(str, len, (void *)&addr->in6, -1, &end) > 0 &&
(!end || *end == 0 || *end == '\n')) {
addr->family = AF_INET6;
- return 1;
+ return 0;
}
return -1;
@@ -861,7 +839,7 @@ static ssize_t local_ip_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
{
struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
- if (nt->ipv6)
+ if (nt->local_ip.family == AF_INET6)
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pI6c\n", &nt->local_ip.in6);
else
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pI4\n", &nt->local_ip.ip);
@@ -871,7 +849,7 @@ static ssize_t remote_ip_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
{
struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
- if (nt->ipv6)
+ if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_INET6)
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pI6c\n", &nt->remote_ip.in6);
else
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pI4\n", &nt->remote_ip.ip);
@@ -1219,7 +1197,6 @@ static ssize_t local_ip_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
{
struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
- int ipv6;
dynamic_netconsole_mutex_lock();
if (nt->state == STATE_ENABLED) {
@@ -1228,10 +1205,8 @@ static ssize_t local_ip_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
goto out_unlock;
}
- ipv6 = netpoll_parse_ip_addr(buf, &nt->local_ip);
- if (ipv6 == -1)
+ if (netpoll_parse_ip_addr(buf, &nt->local_ip) < 0)
goto out_unlock;
- nt->ipv6 = !!ipv6;
ret = count;
out_unlock:
@@ -1244,7 +1219,6 @@ static ssize_t remote_ip_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
{
struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
- int ipv6;
dynamic_netconsole_mutex_lock();
if (nt->state == STATE_ENABLED) {
@@ -1253,10 +1227,8 @@ static ssize_t remote_ip_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
goto out_unlock;
}
- ipv6 = netpoll_parse_ip_addr(buf, &nt->remote_ip);
- if (ipv6 == -1)
+ if (netpoll_parse_ip_addr(buf, &nt->remote_ip) < 0)
goto out_unlock;
- nt->ipv6 = !!ipv6;
ret = count;
out_unlock:
@@ -2067,7 +2039,7 @@ static void netpoll_udp_checksum(struct netconsole_target *nt,
/* check needs to be set, since it will be consumed in csum_partial */
udph->check = 0;
- if (nt->ipv6)
+ if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_INET6)
udph->check = csum_ipv6_magic(&nt->local_ip.in6,
&nt->remote_ip.in6,
udp_len, IPPROTO_UDP,
@@ -2108,7 +2080,7 @@ static void push_eth(struct netconsole_target *nt, struct sk_buff *skb)
skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
ether_addr_copy(eth->h_source, np->dev->dev_addr);
ether_addr_copy(eth->h_dest, nt->remote_mac);
- if (nt->ipv6)
+ if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_INET6)
eth->h_proto = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
else
eth->h_proto = htons(ETH_P_IP);
@@ -2177,7 +2149,7 @@ static int netpoll_send_udp(struct netconsole_target *nt, const char *msg,
WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled());
udp_len = len + sizeof(struct udphdr);
- if (nt->ipv6)
+ if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_INET6)
ip_len = udp_len + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr);
else
ip_len = udp_len + sizeof(struct iphdr);
@@ -2193,7 +2165,7 @@ static int netpoll_send_udp(struct netconsole_target *nt, const char *msg,
skb_put(skb, len);
push_udp(nt, skb, len);
- if (nt->ipv6)
+ if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_INET6)
push_ipv6(nt, skb, len);
else
push_ipv4(nt, skb, len);
@@ -2513,10 +2485,8 @@ __releases(&target_list_lock)
static int netconsole_parser_cmdline(struct netconsole_target *nt, char *opt)
{
struct netpoll *np = &nt->np;
- bool ipversion_set = false;
char *cur = opt;
char *delim;
- int ipv6;
if (*cur != '@') {
delim = strchr(cur, '@');
@@ -2530,16 +2500,12 @@ static int netconsole_parser_cmdline(struct netconsole_target *nt, char *opt)
cur++;
if (*cur != '/') {
- ipversion_set = true;
delim = strchr(cur, '/');
if (!delim)
goto parse_failed;
*delim = 0;
- ipv6 = netpoll_parse_ip_addr(cur, &nt->local_ip);
- if (ipv6 < 0)
+ if (netpoll_parse_ip_addr(cur, &nt->local_ip) < 0)
goto parse_failed;
- else
- nt->ipv6 = (bool)ipv6;
cur = delim;
}
cur++;
@@ -2581,13 +2547,11 @@ static int netconsole_parser_cmdline(struct netconsole_target *nt, char *opt)
if (!delim)
goto parse_failed;
*delim = 0;
- ipv6 = netpoll_parse_ip_addr(cur, &nt->remote_ip);
- if (ipv6 < 0)
+ if (netpoll_parse_ip_addr(cur, &nt->remote_ip) < 0)
goto parse_failed;
- else if (ipversion_set && nt->ipv6 != (bool)ipv6)
+ if (nt->local_ip.family != AF_UNSPEC &&
+ nt->local_ip.family != nt->remote_ip.family)
goto parse_failed;
- else
- nt->ipv6 = (bool)ipv6;
cur = delim + 1;
if (*cur != 0) {
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-10 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-10 16:47 [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] netconsole: validate a target's IP address configuration Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/6] netconsole: add an address family to struct inet_addr Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-11 13:11 ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-10 16:47 ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte [this message]
2026-08-11 13:14 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/6] netconsole: use the address family instead of the ipv6 flag Breno Leitao
2026-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/6] netconsole: reject enabling a target with no remote IP address Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-11 13:16 ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/6] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-11 13:20 ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/6] netconsole: show empty string for an unset IP address Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-11 13:21 ` Breno Leitao
2026-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] netconsole: move struct inet_addr into netconsole.c Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-11 13:21 ` Breno Leitao
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