ethnl_req_get_phydev() is used to lookup a phy_device, in the case an
ethtool netlink command targets a specific phydev within a netdev's
topology.
It takes as a parameter a const struct nlattr *header that's used for
error handling :
if (!phydev) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, header,
"no phy matching phyindex");
return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
}
In the notify path after a ->set operation however, there's no request
attributes available.
The typical callsite for the above function looks like:
phydev = ethnl_req_get_phydev(req_base, tb[ETHTOOL_A_XXX_HEADER],
info->extack);
So, when tb is NULL (such as in the ethnl notify path), we have a nice
crash.
It turns out that there's only the PLCA command that is in that case, as
the other phydev-specific commands don't have a notification.
This commit fixes the crash by passing the cmd index and the nlattr
array separately, allowing NULL-checking it directly inside the helper.
Fixes: c15e065b46 ("net: ethtool: Allow passing a phy index for some commands")
Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Reported-by: Parthiban Veerasooran <parthiban.veerasooran@microchip.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250301141114.97204-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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