[PATCH net-next v2 8/8] netconsole: move remote_mac from struct netpoll to netconsole_target

From: Breno Leitao

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 08:26:43 EST


The destination ethernet address is netconsole configuration: no other
netpoll user (bonding, team, vlan, bridge, macvlan, dsa) references
np->remote_mac, only netconsole's ethernet framing and its
configfs/cmdline interface do.

Move it into struct netconsole_target and convert push_eth() to take the
netconsole_target; netconsole_print_banner() and
netconsole_parser_cmdline() already take it. The configfs show/store
handlers and alloc_and_init() reach the field directly.

No functional change; the remote_mac sysfs attribute is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
include/linux/netpoll.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 75d50630a31ab..e36b0998c8109 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ enum target_state {
* local_ip (read-write)
* remote_ip (read-write)
* local_mac (read-only)
- * remote_mac (read-write)
* @local_port: Source UDP port of the target (read-write).
* @remote_port: Destination UDP port of the target (read-write).
+ * @remote_mac: Destination ethernet address of the target (read-write).
* @buf: The buffer used to send the full msg to the network stack
* @resume_wq: Workqueue to resume deactivated target
* @skb_pool: Per-target fallback skb pool consulted by find_skb() when
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ struct netconsole_target {
bool release;
struct netpoll np;
u16 local_port, remote_port;
+ u8 remote_mac[ETH_ALEN];
/* protected by target_list_lock; +1 gives scnprintf() room for its
* NUL terminator so a full MAX_PRINT_CHUNK payload is not truncated
*/
@@ -464,7 +465,7 @@ static struct netconsole_target *alloc_and_init(void)
strscpy(nt->np.dev_name, "eth0", IFNAMSIZ);
nt->local_port = 6665;
nt->remote_port = 6666;
- eth_broadcast_addr(nt->np.remote_mac);
+ eth_broadcast_addr(nt->remote_mac);
nt->state = STATE_DISABLED;
INIT_WORK(&nt->resume_wq, process_resume_target);

@@ -515,7 +516,7 @@ static void netconsole_print_banner(struct netconsole_target *nt)
np_info(np, "remote IPv6 address %pI6c\n", &np->remote_ip.in6);
else
np_info(np, "remote IPv4 address %pI4\n", &np->remote_ip.ip);
- np_info(np, "remote ethernet address %pM\n", np->remote_mac);
+ np_info(np, "remote ethernet address %pM\n", nt->remote_mac);
}

/* Parse the string and populate the `inet_addr` union. Return 0 if IPv4 is
@@ -671,7 +672,7 @@ static ssize_t local_mac_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)

static ssize_t remote_mac_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
{
- return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pM\n", to_target(item)->np.remote_mac);
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%pM\n", to_target(item)->remote_mac);
}

static ssize_t transmit_errors_show(struct config_item *item, char *buf)
@@ -1076,7 +1077,7 @@ static ssize_t remote_mac_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
goto out_unlock;
if (buf[MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN] && buf[MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN] != '\n')
goto out_unlock;
- memcpy(nt->np.remote_mac, remote_mac, ETH_ALEN);
+ memcpy(nt->remote_mac, remote_mac, ETH_ALEN);

ret = count;
out_unlock:
@@ -1884,14 +1885,15 @@ static void push_udp(struct netconsole_target *nt, struct sk_buff *skb, int len)
netpoll_udp_checksum(np, skb, len);
}

-static void push_eth(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb)
+static void push_eth(struct netconsole_target *nt, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
+ struct netpoll *np = &nt->np;
struct ethhdr *eth;

eth = skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN);
skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
ether_addr_copy(eth->h_source, np->dev->dev_addr);
- ether_addr_copy(eth->h_dest, np->remote_mac);
+ ether_addr_copy(eth->h_dest, nt->remote_mac);
if (np->ipv6)
eth->h_proto = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
else
@@ -1979,7 +1981,7 @@ static int netpoll_send_udp(struct netconsole_target *nt, const char *msg,
push_ipv6(np, skb, len);
else
push_ipv4(np, skb, len);
- push_eth(np, skb);
+ push_eth(nt, skb);
skb->dev = np->dev;

return (int)netpoll_send_skb(np, skb);
@@ -2374,7 +2376,7 @@ static int netconsole_parser_cmdline(struct netconsole_target *nt, char *opt)

if (*cur != 0) {
/* MAC address */
- if (!mac_pton(cur, np->remote_mac))
+ if (!mac_pton(cur, nt->remote_mac))
goto parse_failed;
}

diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h
index 5ca79fa7d9431..79315461a7b1e 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ struct netpoll {

union inet_addr local_ip, remote_ip;
bool ipv6;
- u8 remote_mac[ETH_ALEN];
};

#define np_info(np, fmt, ...) \

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