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 5/6] netconsole: show empty string for an unset IP address
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:47:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810-netcons_ipv6-v2-5-3d4fc987a90f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810-netcons_ipv6-v2-0-3d4fc987a90f@gmail.com>
An unset address (local_ip/remote_ip), now denoted by AF_UNSPEC,
currently shows "0.0.0.0" in configfs. Print an empty string instead,
which is more clear.
In netconsole_print_banner() we can be even more explicit about it, as
we don't have the risk of userspace trying to parse it.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 054c39066043..0418031b6bc9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -705,14 +705,18 @@ 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->local_ip.family == AF_INET6)
+ if (nt->local_ip.family == AF_UNSPEC)
+ np_info(np, "local IP unset\n");
+ else 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->remote_ip.family == AF_INET6)
+ if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_UNSPEC)
+ np_info(np, "remote IP unset\n");
+ else 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);
@@ -850,6 +854,8 @@ static ssize_t local_ip_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
{
struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
+ if (nt->local_ip.family == AF_UNSPEC)
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "\n");
if (nt->local_ip.family == AF_INET6)
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pI6c\n", &nt->local_ip.in6);
else
@@ -860,6 +866,8 @@ static ssize_t remote_ip_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
{
struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
+ if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_UNSPEC)
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "\n");
if (nt->remote_ip.family == AF_INET6)
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pI6c\n", &nt->remote_ip.in6);
else
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-10 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ 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
2026-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/6] netconsole: use the address family instead of the ipv6 flag Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/6] netconsole: reject enabling a target with no remote IP address Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/6] netconsole: reject a target mixing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2026-08-10 16:47 ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte [this message]
2026-08-10 16:47 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] netconsole: move struct inet_addr into netconsole.c Gustavo Luiz Duarte
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20260810-netcons_ipv6-v2-5-3d4fc987a90f@gmail.com \
--to=gustavold@gmail.com \
--cc=andrew+netdev@lunn.ch \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=edumazet@google.com \
--cc=horms@kernel.org \
--cc=kuba@kernel.org \
--cc=leitao@debian.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=pabeni@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox