[PATCH 5.1 056/122] RDMA/ipoib: Allow user space differentiate between valid dev_port

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 23 2019 - 15:31:01 EST


From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit b79656ed44c6865e17bcd93472ec39488bcc4984 upstream.

Systemd triggers the following warning during IPoIB device load:

mlx5_core 0000:00:0c.0 ib0: "systemd-udevd" wants to know my dev_id.
Should it look at dev_port instead?
See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.

This is caused due to user space attempt to differentiate old systems
without dev_port and new systems with dev_port. In case dev_port will be
zero, the systemd will try to read dev_id instead.

There is no need to print a warning in such case, because it is valid
situation and it is needed to ensure systemd compatibility with old
kernels.

Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#L358
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.19
Fixes: f6350da41dc7 ("IB/ipoib: Log sysfs 'dev_id' accesses from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -2402,7 +2402,18 @@ static ssize_t dev_id_show(struct device
{
struct net_device *ndev = to_net_dev(dev);

- if (ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port)
+ /*
+ * ndev->dev_port will be equal to 0 in old kernel prior to commit
+ * 9b8b2a323008 ("IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface
+ * port numbers") Zero was chosen as special case for user space
+ * applications to fallback and query dev_id to check if it has
+ * different value or not.
+ *
+ * Don't print warning in such scenario.
+ *
+ * https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#L358
+ */
+ if (ndev->dev_port && ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port)
netdev_info_once(ndev,
"\"%s\" wants to know my dev_id. Should it look at dev_port instead? See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.\n",
current->comm);