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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ethtool_set_features suggestion
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:40:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308940820.3034.17.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E04D576.8090902@candelatech.com>

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:20 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> static int ethtool_set_features(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
> {
> 	struct ethtool_sfeatures cmd;
> 	struct ethtool_set_features_block features[ETHTOOL_DEV_FEATURE_WORDS];
> 	netdev_features_t wanted = 0, valid = 0;
> 	int i, ret = 0;
> 
> 	if (copy_from_user(&cmd, useraddr, sizeof(cmd)))
> 		return -EFAULT;
> 	useraddr += sizeof(cmd);
> 
> 	if (cmd.size != ETHTOOL_DEV_FEATURE_WORDS)
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 
> (This is from net-next, with Miroslaw's patches applied)
> 
> I was thinking that we should deal with whatever size is passed in.
> That way, if we ever expand the kernel
> feature-words size, an old user-space ethtool app would
> still function OK.

Userland should find out the correct size from ETHTOOL_GFEATURES.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-24 18:40 UTC|newest]

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2011-06-24 18:20 ethtool_set_features suggestion Ben Greear
2011-06-24 18:40 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]

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