[PATCH net-next v6 1/2] net: ethtool: Introduce per-PHY DUMP operations

Maxime Chevallier maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com
Fri Apr 18 00:00:16 PDT 2025


Hi Paolo,

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:03:43 +0200
Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 4/15/25 10:51 AM, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> > +static int ethnl_perphy_dump_all_dev(struct sk_buff *skb,
> > +				     struct ethnl_perphy_dump_ctx *ctx,
> > +				     const struct genl_info *info)
> > +{
> > +	struct ethnl_dump_ctx *ethnl_ctx = &ctx->ethnl_ctx;
> > +	struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
> > +	struct net_device *dev;
> > +	int ret = 0;
> > +
> > +	rcu_read_lock();
> > +	for_each_netdev_dump(net, dev, ethnl_ctx->pos_ifindex) {
> > +		dev_hold(dev);  
> 
> Minor nit: please use netdev_hold() instead.

Will do, I didn't see the notice about using netdev_hold instead in the
doc, I merely used the current ethnl_default_dumpit() as a reference,
and it uses dev_hold() as well.

should I convert it to netdev_hold() along the way in v3 ?

Maxime



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