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Merge branch 'ethtool-fail-with-error-if-request-has-unknown-flags'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:04:24 +0000 (02:04 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:04:24 +0000 (02:04 -0700)
commit49e217cc00a9080ced888e2cb2bbe2949f77a3a8
tree50e6db43a35ff0a60dd39dda32e9d2a594502bb8
parent98d1688655e2bbbc9cf0d333017e2dc0bb2e2503
parent59fec0ea81a28176a8ccc41b250c3365d401b59b
Merge branch 'ethtool-fail-with-error-if-request-has-unknown-flags'

Michal Kubecek says:

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ethtool: fail with error if request has unknown flags

Jakub Kicinski pointed out that if unrecognized flags are set in netlink
header request, kernel shoud fail with an error rather than silently
ignore them so that we have more freedom in future flags semantics.

To help userspace with handling such errors, inform the client which
flags are supported by kernel. For that purpose, we need to allow
passing cookies as part of extack also in case of error (they can be
only passed on success now).
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>