Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: qualcomm: rmnet: Allow partial updates of IFLA_FLAGS

From: Alex Elder
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 21:35:57 EST


On 6/15/21 6:27 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> The idiomatic way to handle the changelink flags/mask pair seems to be
> allow partial updates of the driver's link flags. In contrast the rmnet
> driver masks the incoming flags and then use that as the new flags.
>
> Change the rmnet driver to follow the common scheme, before the
> introduction of IFLA_RMNET_FLAGS handling in iproute2 et al.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>

KS was right, we want the same behavior in both newlink and changelink,
but aside from that, I like this a lot.

It looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Also do the masking dance on newlink, per Subash request
> - Add "net-next" to subject prefix
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
> index 8d51b0cb545c..27b1663c476e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
> @@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ static int rmnet_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
> struct ifla_rmnet_flags *flags;
>
> flags = nla_data(data[IFLA_RMNET_FLAGS]);
> - data_format = flags->flags & flags->mask;
> + data_format &= ~flags->mask;
> + data_format |= flags->flags & flags->mask;
> }
>
> netdev_dbg(dev, "data format [0x%08X]\n", data_format);
> @@ -336,7 +337,8 @@ static int rmnet_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
>
> old_data_format = port->data_format;
> flags = nla_data(data[IFLA_RMNET_FLAGS]);
> - port->data_format = flags->flags & flags->mask;
> + port->data_format &= ~flags->mask;
> + port->data_format |= flags->flags & flags->mask;
>
> if (rmnet_vnd_update_dev_mtu(port, real_dev)) {
> port->data_format = old_data_format;
>