From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Parthiban Veerasooran <Parthiban.Veerasooran@microchip.com>
Cc: <piergiorgio.beruto@gmail.com>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<edumazet@google.com>, <pabeni@redhat.com>, <andrew@lunn.ch>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>, <Woojung.Huh@microchip.com>,
<Nicolas.Ferre@microchip.com>,
<Thorsten.Kummermehr@microchip.com>,
<UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] ethtool: plca: fix plca enable data type while parsing the value
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 10:11:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230907101119.3e5a5dc0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230908140346.40680-1-Parthiban.Veerasooran@microchip.com>
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 19:33:46 +0530 Parthiban Veerasooran wrote:
> The ETHTOOL_A_PLCA_ENABLED data type is u8. But while parsing the
> value from the attribute, nla_get_u32() is used in the plca_update_sint()
> function instead of nla_get_u8(). So plca_cfg.enabled variable is updated
> with some garbage value instead of 0 or 1 and always enables plca even
> though plca is disabled through ethtool application. This bug has been
> fixed by parsing the values based on the attributes type in the policy.
>
> Fixes: 8580e16c28f3 ("net/ethtool: add netlink interface for the PLCA RS")
> Signed-off-by: Parthiban Veerasooran <Parthiban.Veerasooran@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-07 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-08 14:03 [PATCH net v2] ethtool: plca: fix plca enable data type while parsing the value Parthiban Veerasooran
2023-09-07 17:11 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-09-08 3:44 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-09-08 4:35 ` Parthiban.Veerasooran
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2023-09-08 4:45 Parthiban Veerasooran
2023-09-12 12:07 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-10-03 14:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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