Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 14:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

quoted

 	strcpy(dev->name, name);
 	dev->group = INIT_NETDEV_GROUP;
+	if (!dev->ethtool_ops) {
+		static const struct ethtool_ops default_ethtool_ops;
+
+		dev->ethtool_ops = &default_ethtool_ops;
+	}

This block has a blank line in it, so I think it needs a blank line
either side to make the visual grouping of code right.  Alternately you
could pull the variable out of the block.

Blank line is preferred after a variable declaration in a function.

I dont feel the need to make this variable visible outside of this
function yet. But if you feel it, no problem.

[...] 

quoted

@@ -1410,8 +1409,9 @@ static int ethtool_get_module_eeprom(struct net_device *dev,
 				      modinfo.eeprom_len);
 }
 
-/* The main entry point in this file.  Called from net/core/dev.c */
-
+/* The main entry point in this file.  Called from net/core/dev.c
+ * with RTNL held.
+ */

Good point but an unrelated change.

Its related, because I wanted to make clear (at least for me)
why assuming dev->ethtool_ops was not NULL at this point was valid.

quoted

 int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name);

@@ -1419,25 +1419,15 @@ int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr)
 	u32 ethcmd;
 	int rc;
 	u32 old_features;
+	const struct ethtool_ops *ops;
 
 	if (!dev || !netif_device_present(dev))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	ops = dev->ethtool_ops;

[...]

Introducing this local variable is a useful cleanup but again should be
a separate change.

Its a patch meant for net-next, and a cleanup. I could understand your
point if we had to backport this to stable trees, buts its not the
case ?

I really dont care, so if you really prefer I dont cleanup ethtool.c, so
be it.

Some functions test dev->ethtool_ops is NULL, others lack this test.
This just makes no sense to me, maybe there is something I missed.

Thanks

[PATCH v2 net-next] net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops

Instead of forcing device drivers to provide empty ethtool_ops or tweak
net/core/ethtool.c again, we could provide a generic ethtool_ops.

This occurred to me when I wanted to add GSO support to GRE tunnels.
ethtool -k support should be generic for all drivers.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <redacted>
---
 net/core/dev.c     |    4 ++++
 net/core/ethtool.c |   12 ------------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index dcc673d..2bcb02c 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c

@@ -5959,6 +5959,8 @@ struct netdev_queue *dev_ingress_queue_create(struct net_device *dev)
 	return queue;
 }
 
+static const struct ethtool_ops default_ethtool_ops;
+
 /**
  *	alloc_netdev_mqs - allocate network device
  *	@sizeof_priv:	size of private data to allocate space for

@@ -6046,6 +6048,8 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
 
 	strcpy(dev->name, name);
 	dev->group = INIT_NETDEV_GROUP;
+	if (!dev->ethtool_ops)
+		dev->ethtool_ops = &default_ethtool_ops;
 	return dev;
 
 free_all:

diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index cbf033d..4d64cc2 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c

@@ -1426,18 +1426,6 @@ int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr)
 	if (copy_from_user(&ethcmd, useraddr, sizeof(ethcmd)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	if (!dev->ethtool_ops) {
-		/* A few commands do not require any driver support,
-		 * are unprivileged, and do not change anything, so we
-		 * can take a shortcut to them. */
-		if (ethcmd == ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO)
-			return ethtool_get_drvinfo(dev, useraddr);
-		else if (ethcmd == ETHTOOL_GET_TS_INFO)
-			return ethtool_get_ts_info(dev, useraddr);
-		else
-			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	}
-
 	/* Allow some commands to be done by anyone */
 	switch (ethcmd) {
 	case ETHTOOL_GSET: