From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0CC53FC5AD; Wed, 20 May 2026 18:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779301419; cv=none; b=jrFgNM5Mjf0rjcztA2taMDJ/q3SXVPsDVNLAy929sOlXWSSePTYM4Fgj/3IioaqL9CI1UGDiccm/o7l7POBUhoX0t0HBBeq2d4PM2RkpkekR2hYLuIT098qB6cdKIvM2N+MSJ3kqX0CB2f68Vu/Ry6CDIalIjVAUZopHaAuNsHw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779301419; c=relaxed/simple; bh=C3ZMR+EasfuYDe7JvNb/boxrNO6CUOII8qeTm7yRM60=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=l1/OUs+nJLVIPRvcCHNIJf9/CQ0Yb2EZNTKKjuLEpv3A02PHMOsNGldPCALts3kxDXyN3nGE7LPD95GPoi62utbdR5/7zzUfJlfKWAYgi8ZauxIoBAbVtbPTaD5VlHlX4aPkPk7aLtYtVrNEEwWR/tx34AfCyceSumt90Zpptug= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=tzedYavV; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="tzedYavV" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 218341F000E9; Wed, 20 May 2026 18:23:36 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1779301417; bh=V7EKHY8dNMJQlpaO6aL/kRRhjcGEb2lY6gw1RHiU/jo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=tzedYavVOq4eYH1QWvp/vhd7DhLNoeomXEKo2DlttzkVpmLZzRB5poq8tABm2dNdE r8bTyLw7/lKcDuBQdISVyJ5/Lh9csEVfK/n+AlO7bHx2RhARN8ZmH7l2mvtMCyyo6D pa8L7xM5ZoJp5PkJZEAQSBQdGdr0s5glZ9RbvXw8= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Uday Shankar , Breno Leitao , Simon Horman , Paolo Abeni , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 6.12 547/666] netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 18:22:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20260520162123.126715973@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0 In-Reply-To: <20260520162111.222830634@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20260520162111.222830634@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Uday Shankar [ Upstream commit f8a10bed32f5fbede13a5f22fdc4ab8740ea213a ] Currently, netconsole has two methods of configuration - module parameter and configfs. The former interface allows for netconsole activation earlier during boot (by specifying the module parameter on the kernel command line), so it is preferred for debugging issues which arise before userspace is up/the configfs interface can be used. The module parameter syntax requires specifying the egress interface name. This requirement makes it hard to use for a couple reasons: - The egress interface name can be hard or impossible to predict. For example, installing a new network card in a system can change the interface names assigned by the kernel. - When constructing the module parameter, one may have trouble determining the original (kernel-assigned) name of the interface (which is the name that should be given to netconsole) if some stable interface naming scheme is in effect. A human can usually look at kernel logs to determine the original name, but this is very painful if automation is constructing the parameter. For these reasons, allow selection of the egress interface via MAC address when configuring netconsole using the module parameter. Update the netconsole documentation with an example of the new syntax. Selection of egress interface by MAC address via configfs is far less interesting (since when this interface can be used, one should be able to easily convert between MAC address and interface name), so it is left unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao Tested-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312-netconsole-v6-2-3437933e79b8@purestorage.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: 3bc179bc7146 ("netpoll: fix IPv6 local-address corruption") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst | 6 ++- include/linux/netpoll.h | 6 +++ net/core/netpoll.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++------ 3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst index d55c2a22ec7af..56578486ff7e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ following format:: r if present, prepend kernel version (release) to the message src-port source for UDP packets (defaults to 6665) src-ip source IP to use (interface address) - dev network interface (eth0) + dev network interface name (eth0) or MAC address tgt-port port for logging agent (6666) tgt-ip IP address for logging agent tgt-macaddr ethernet MAC address for logging agent (broadcast) @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ or using IPv6:: insmod netconsole netconsole=@/,@fd00:1:2:3::1/ +or using a MAC address to select the egress interface:: + + linux netconsole=4444@10.0.0.1/22:33:44:55:66:77,9353@10.0.0.2/12:34:56:78:9a:bc + It also supports logging to multiple remote agents by specifying parameters for the multiple agents separated by semicolons and the complete string enclosed in "quotes", thusly:: diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h index b34301650c479..ca88b1b87059f 100644 --- a/include/linux/netpoll.h +++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h @@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ union inet_addr { struct netpoll { struct net_device *dev; netdevice_tracker dev_tracker; + /* + * Either dev_name or dev_mac can be used to specify the local + * interface - dev_name is used if it is a nonempty string, else + * dev_mac is used. + */ char dev_name[IFNAMSIZ]; + u8 dev_mac[ETH_ALEN]; const char *name; union inet_addr local_ip, remote_ip; diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index 11b2a841b7488..a38b239cd7db6 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -506,7 +506,8 @@ void netpoll_print_options(struct netpoll *np) np_info(np, "local IPv6 address %pI6c\n", &np->local_ip.in6); else np_info(np, "local IPv4 address %pI4\n", &np->local_ip.ip); - np_info(np, "interface '%s'\n", np->dev_name); + 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", np->remote_port); if (np->ipv6) np_info(np, "remote IPv6 address %pI6c\n", &np->remote_ip.in6); @@ -575,11 +576,18 @@ int netpoll_parse_options(struct netpoll *np, char *opt) cur++; if (*cur != ',') { - /* parse out dev name */ + /* parse out dev_name or dev_mac */ if ((delim = strchr(cur, ',')) == NULL) goto parse_failed; *delim = 0; - strscpy(np->dev_name, cur, sizeof(np->dev_name)); + + np->dev_name[0] = '\0'; + eth_broadcast_addr(np->dev_mac); + if (!strchr(cur, ':')) + strscpy(np->dev_name, cur, sizeof(np->dev_name)); + else if (!mac_pton(cur, np->dev_mac)) + goto parse_failed; + cur = delim; } cur++; @@ -684,27 +692,45 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__netpoll_setup); +/* + * Returns a pointer to a string representation of the identifier used + * to select the egress interface for the given netpoll instance. buf + * must be a buffer of length at least MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN + 1. + */ +static char *egress_dev(struct netpoll *np, char *buf) +{ + if (np->dev_name[0]) + return np->dev_name; + + snprintf(buf, MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN, "%pM", np->dev_mac); + return buf; +} + int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) { + struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns; + char buf[MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN + 1]; struct net_device *ndev = NULL; bool ip_overwritten = false; struct in_device *in_dev; int err; rtnl_lock(); - if (np->dev_name[0]) { - struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns; + if (np->dev_name[0]) ndev = __dev_get_by_name(net, np->dev_name); - } + else if (is_valid_ether_addr(np->dev_mac)) + ndev = dev_getbyhwaddr(net, ARPHRD_ETHER, np->dev_mac); + if (!ndev) { - np_err(np, "%s doesn't exist, aborting\n", np->dev_name); + np_err(np, "%s doesn't exist, aborting\n", egress_dev(np, buf)); err = -ENODEV; goto unlock; } netdev_hold(ndev, &np->dev_tracker, GFP_KERNEL); if (netdev_master_upper_dev_get(ndev)) { - np_err(np, "%s is a slave device, aborting\n", np->dev_name); + np_err(np, "%s is a slave device, aborting\n", + egress_dev(np, buf)); err = -EBUSY; goto put; } @@ -712,7 +738,8 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) if (!netif_running(ndev)) { unsigned long atmost; - np_info(np, "device %s not up yet, forcing it\n", np->dev_name); + np_info(np, "device %s not up yet, forcing it\n", + egress_dev(np, buf)); err = dev_open(ndev, NULL); @@ -746,7 +773,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) if (!ifa) { put_noaddr: np_err(np, "no IP address for %s, aborting\n", - np->dev_name); + egress_dev(np, buf)); err = -EDESTADDRREQ; goto put; } @@ -777,13 +804,13 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) } if (err) { np_err(np, "no IPv6 address for %s, aborting\n", - np->dev_name); + egress_dev(np, buf)); goto put; } else np_info(np, "local IPv6 %pI6c\n", &np->local_ip.in6); #else np_err(np, "IPv6 is not supported %s, aborting\n", - np->dev_name); + egress_dev(np, buf)); err = -EINVAL; goto put; #endif -- 2.53.0