| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.19 178/361] IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface port numbers | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:18:45 -0800 |
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4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Arseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru>
[ Upstream commit 9b8b2a323008aedd39a8debb861b825707f01420 ]
Some InfiniBand network devices have multiple ports on the same PCI function. This initializes the `dev_port' sysfs field of those network interfaces with their port number.
Prior to this the kernel erroneously used the `dev_id' sysfs field of those network interfaces to convey the port number to userspace.
The use of `dev_id' was considered correct until Linux 3.15, when another field, `dev_port', was defined for this particular purpose and `dev_id' was reserved for distinguishing stacked ifaces (e.g: VLANs) with the same hardware address as their parent device.
Similar fixes to net/mlx4_en and many other drivers, which started exporting this information through `dev_id' before 3.15, were accepted into the kernel 4 years ago. See 76a066f2a2a0 (`net/mlx4_en: Expose port number through sysfs').
Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c @@ -1880,6 +1880,8 @@ static int ipoib_parent_init(struct net_ sizeof(union ib_gid)); SET_NETDEV_DEV(priv->dev, priv->ca->dev.parent); + priv->dev->dev_port = priv->port - 1; + /* Let's set this one too for backwards compatibility. */ priv->dev->dev_id = priv->port - 1; return 0;
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