Re: [E1000-devel] getting VF link info seems to be broken in 3.9-rc8

[David M. <da...@da...>]

From: Alexander Duyck <ale...@in...>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:29:04 -0700

> I did a bit of digging and it looks like the issue is that the
> ext_filter_mask is not being found in the message received in
> rtnl_dump_ifinfo.  I'm still trying to figure out why the kernel isn't
> finding the flag when it was finding it previously, but I'm not much of
> a netlink expert.

I wonder if this has something to do with this commit:

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>From 88c5b5ce5cb57af6ca2a7cf4d5715fa320448ff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Riesch <mic...@om...>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 05:45:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] rtnetlink: Call nlmsg_parse() with correct header length

Signed-off-by: Michael Riesch <mic...@om...>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@da...>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gr...@li...>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jb...@re...>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mi...>
Cc: lin...@vg...
Acked-by: Mark Rustad <mar...@in...>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@da...>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index b65441d..23854b5 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ static int rtnl_dump_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	cb->seq = net->dev_base_seq;
 
-	if (nlmsg_parse(cb->nlh, sizeof(struct rtgenmsg), tb, IFLA_MAX,
+	if (nlmsg_parse(cb->nlh, sizeof(struct ifinfomsg), tb, IFLA_MAX,
 			ifla_policy) >= 0) {
 
 		if (tb[IFLA_EXT_MASK])
@@ -1922,7 +1922,7 @@ static u16 rtnl_calcit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	u32 ext_filter_mask = 0;
 	u16 min_ifinfo_dump_size = 0;
 
-	if (nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(struct rtgenmsg), tb, IFLA_MAX,
+	if (nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(struct ifinfomsg), tb, IFLA_MAX,
 			ifla_policy) >= 0) {
 		if (tb[IFLA_EXT_MASK])
 			ext_filter_mask = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_EXT_MASK]);
-- 
1.7.11.7