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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2011-12-15 13:55:01 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-12-16 13:52:47 -0500
commit7850f63f1620512631445b901ae11cd149e7375c (patch)
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ethtool: Centralise validation of ETHTOOL_{G, S}RXFHINDIR parameters
Add a new ethtool operation (get_rxfh_indir_size) to get the indirectional table size. Use this to validate the user buffer size before calling get_rxfh_indir or set_rxfh_indir. Use get_rxnfc to get the number of RX rings, and validate the contents of the new indirection table before calling set_rxfh_indir. Remove this validation from drivers. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Acked-by: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/ethtool.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ethtool.h11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ethtool.h b/include/linux/ethtool.h
index 0ec2fd412d03..3b9f09d55b5c 100644
--- a/include/linux/ethtool.h
+++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h
@@ -828,9 +828,13 @@ u32 ethtool_op_get_link(struct net_device *dev);
* error code or zero.
* @set_rx_ntuple: Set an RX n-tuple rule. Returns a negative error code
* or zero.
+ * @get_rxfh_indir_size: Get the size of the RX flow hash indirection table.
+ * Returns zero if not supported for this specific device.
* @get_rxfh_indir: Get the contents of the RX flow hash indirection table.
+ * Will not be called if @get_rxfh_indir_size returns zero.
* Returns a negative error code or zero.
* @set_rxfh_indir: Set the contents of the RX flow hash indirection table.
+ * Will not be called if @get_rxfh_indir_size returns zero.
* Returns a negative error code or zero.
* @get_channels: Get number of channels.
* @set_channels: Set number of channels. Returns a negative error code or
@@ -894,10 +898,9 @@ struct ethtool_ops {
int (*reset)(struct net_device *, u32 *);
int (*set_rx_ntuple)(struct net_device *,
struct ethtool_rx_ntuple *);
- int (*get_rxfh_indir)(struct net_device *,
- struct ethtool_rxfh_indir *);
- int (*set_rxfh_indir)(struct net_device *,
- const struct ethtool_rxfh_indir *);
+ u32 (*get_rxfh_indir_size)(struct net_device *);
+ int (*get_rxfh_indir)(struct net_device *, u32 *);
+ int (*set_rxfh_indir)(struct net_device *, const u32 *);
void (*get_channels)(struct net_device *, struct ethtool_channels *);
int (*set_channels)(struct net_device *, struct ethtool_channels *);
int (*get_dump_flag)(struct net_device *, struct ethtool_dump *);