Re: [PATCH net v2 1/2] net: macb: zero the link settings taprio reads back

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On 9/3/26 2:36 PM, Aleksei Sviridkin wrote:
> macb_taprio_setup_replace() calls phylink_ethtool_ksettings_get() with
> an uninitialised kset, and kset is not only an out-parameter. On a
> fixed link, or an in-band link with no PHY, phylink writes speed and
> duplex only if kset->base.rate_matching already reads RATE_MATCH_NONE,
> a field it never writes itself; in PHY mode before the PHY is attached
> it writes port and supported and nothing more. Either way the speed
> read back afterwards can be stack garbage. The ethtool core zeroes the
> structure on every path into the op, which is why its callers never
> see this; taprio is the only in-kernel caller passing its own variable.
> 
> Fixes: 89934dbf169e ("net: macb: Add TAPRIO traffic scheduling support")
> Assisted-by: LLM

Not blocking the series for this, but note that you should actually
specify the model you used.

/P