Re: [PATCH net-next] netkit: Don't emit scrub attribute for single device mode

Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-04-10T07:43:15Z

On 4/10/26 10:23, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> When userspace reads a single mode netkit device via RTM_GETLINK,
> it receives IFLA_NETKIT_SCRUB=NETKIT_SCRUB_DEFAULT attribute from
> netkit_fill_info(). If that attribute is echoed back to recreate
> the device, the seen_scrub presence check in netkit_new_link()
> causes creation to fail with -EOPNOTSUPP. Since it has no meaning
> for single devices at this point, just don't dump it.
>
> Fixes: 481038960538 ("netkit: Add single device mode for netkit")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
> ---
> drivers/net/netkit.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/netkit.c b/drivers/net/netkit.c
> index 5619209329d5..7b56a7ad7a49 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/netkit.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/netkit.c
> @@ -1214,7 +1214,8 @@ static int netkit_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)
> return -EMSGSIZE;
> if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_MODE, nk->mode))
> return -EMSGSIZE;
> - if (nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_SCRUB, nk->scrub))
> + if (nk->pair == NETKIT_DEVICE_PAIR &&
> + nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_SCRUB, nk->scrub))
> return -EMSGSIZE;
> if (nla_put_u16(skb, IFLA_NETKIT_HEADROOM, dev->needed_headroom))
> return -EMSGSIZE;

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>