Re: [PATCH RFC net-next v2 4/6] net: devmem: TCP tx netlink api

From: Simon Horman
Date: Fri Jan 31 2025 - 03:30:47 EST


On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 09:15:37PM +0000, Mina Almasry wrote:
> From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add bind-tx netlink call to attach dmabuf for TX; queue is not
> required, only ifindex and dmabuf fd for attachment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Mina,

I noticed minor issue relating to generated code.

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> diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml
> index cbb544bd6c84..93f4333e7bc6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml

The lines preceding the hunk below are:

name: napi-set
doc: Set configurable NAPI instance settings.
attribute-set: napi
flags: [ admin-perm ]
do:
request:
attributes:
- id

> @@ -711,6 +711,18 @@ operations:
> - defer-hard-irqs
> - gro-flush-timeout
> - irq-suspend-timeout
> + -
> + name: bind-tx
> + doc: Bind dmabuf to netdev for TX
> + attribute-set: dmabuf

Unlike the entry for napi-set there is no "flags: [ admin-perm ]" fpr
bind-tx...

> + do:
> + request:
> + attributes:
> + - ifindex
> + - fd
> + reply:
> + attributes:
> + - id
>
> kernel-family:
> headers: [ "linux/list.h"]

...

> diff --git a/net/core/netdev-genl-gen.c b/net/core/netdev-genl-gen.c

...

> @@ -190,6 +196,13 @@ static const struct genl_split_ops netdev_nl_ops[] = {

The lines preceding this hunk are:

{
.cmd = NETDEV_CMD_NAPI_SET,
.doit = netdev_nl_napi_set_doit,
.policy = netdev_napi_set_nl_policy,

> .maxattr = NETDEV_A_NAPI_IRQ_SUSPEND_TIMEOUT,
> .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM | GENL_CMD_CAP_DO,
> },
> + {
> + .cmd = NETDEV_CMD_BIND_TX,
> + .doit = netdev_nl_bind_tx_doit,
> + .policy = netdev_bind_tx_nl_policy,
> + .maxattr = NETDEV_A_DMABUF_FD,
> + .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM | GENL_CMD_CAP_DO,

... so I don't think GENL_ADMIN_PERM should be here.

Flagged by running tools/net/ynl/ynl-regen.sh -f && git diff

> + },
> };
>
> static const struct genl_multicast_group netdev_nl_mcgrps[] = {

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