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<title>net/ethtool/ioctl: return -EOPNOTSUPP if we have no phy stats</title>
<updated>2023-01-24T06:05:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniil Tatianin</name>
<email>d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-26T11:48:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9deb1e9fb88b1120a908676fa33bdf9e2eeaefce ]

It's not very useful to copy back an empty ethtool_stats struct and
return 0 if we didn't actually have any stats. This also allows for
further simplification of this function in the future commits.

Signed-off-by: Daniil Tatianin &lt;d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9deb1e9fb88b1120a908676fa33bdf9e2eeaefce ]

It's not very useful to copy back an empty ethtool_stats struct and
return 0 if we didn't actually have any stats. This also allows for
further simplification of this function in the future commits.

Signed-off-by: Daniil Tatianin &lt;d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ethtool: reduce stack usage with clang</title>
<updated>2020-01-17T18:45:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-07T15:58:35+00:00</published>
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commit 3499e87ea0413ee5b2cc028f4c8ed4d424bc7f98 upstream.

clang inlines the dev_ethtool() more aggressively than gcc does, leading
to a larger amount of used stack space:

net/core/ethtool.c:2536:24: error: stack frame size of 1216 bytes in function 'dev_ethtool' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]

Marking the sub-functions that require the most stack space as
noinline_for_stack gives us reasonable behavior on all compilers.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen &lt;miles.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3499e87ea0413ee5b2cc028f4c8ed4d424bc7f98 upstream.

clang inlines the dev_ethtool() more aggressively than gcc does, leading
to a larger amount of used stack space:

net/core/ethtool.c:2536:24: error: stack frame size of 1216 bytes in function 'dev_ethtool' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]

Marking the sub-functions that require the most stack space as
noinline_for_stack gives us reasonable behavior on all compilers.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen &lt;miles.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>net: Zeroing the structure ethtool_wolinfo in ethtool_get_wol()</title>
<updated>2019-11-10T10:25:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhanglin</name>
<email>zhang.lin16@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-26T07:54:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5ff223e86f5addbfae26419cbb5d61d98f6fbf7d ]

memset() the structure ethtool_wolinfo that has padded bytes
but the padded bytes have not been zeroed out.

Signed-off-by: zhanglin &lt;zhang.lin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5ff223e86f5addbfae26419cbb5d61d98f6fbf7d ]

memset() the structure ethtool_wolinfo that has padded bytes
but the padded bytes have not been zeroed out.

Signed-off-by: zhanglin &lt;zhang.lin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ethtool: check the return value of get_regs_len</title>
<updated>2019-06-11T10:21:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yunsheng Lin</name>
<email>linyunsheng@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-26T11:51:46+00:00</published>
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commit f9fc54d313fab2834f44f516459cdc8ac91d797f upstream.

The return type for get_regs_len in struct ethtool_ops is int,
the hns3 driver may return error when failing to get the regs
len by sending cmd to firmware.

Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f9fc54d313fab2834f44f516459cdc8ac91d797f upstream.

The return type for get_regs_len in struct ethtool_ops is int,
the hns3 driver may return error when failing to get the regs
len by sending cmd to firmware.

Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ethtool: fix potential userspace buffer overflow</title>
<updated>2019-06-11T10:21:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivien Didelot</name>
<email>vivien.didelot@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-03T20:57:13+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0ee4e76937d69128a6a66861ba393ebdc2ffc8a2 ]

ethtool_get_regs() allocates a buffer of size ops-&gt;get_regs_len(),
and pass it to the kernel driver via ops-&gt;get_regs() for filling.

There is no restriction about what the kernel drivers can or cannot do
with the open ethtool_regs structure. They usually set regs-&gt;version
and ignore regs-&gt;len or set it to the same size as ops-&gt;get_regs_len().

But if userspace allocates a smaller buffer for the registers dump,
we would cause a userspace buffer overflow in the final copy_to_user()
call, which uses the regs.len value potentially reset by the driver.

To fix this, make this case obvious and store regs.len before calling
ops-&gt;get_regs(), to only copy as much data as requested by userspace,
up to the value returned by ops-&gt;get_regs_len().

While at it, remove the redundant check for non-null regbuf.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0ee4e76937d69128a6a66861ba393ebdc2ffc8a2 ]

ethtool_get_regs() allocates a buffer of size ops-&gt;get_regs_len(),
and pass it to the kernel driver via ops-&gt;get_regs() for filling.

There is no restriction about what the kernel drivers can or cannot do
with the open ethtool_regs structure. They usually set regs-&gt;version
and ignore regs-&gt;len or set it to the same size as ops-&gt;get_regs_len().

But if userspace allocates a smaller buffer for the registers dump,
we would cause a userspace buffer overflow in the final copy_to_user()
call, which uses the regs.len value potentially reset by the driver.

To fix this, make this case obvious and store regs.len before calling
ops-&gt;get_regs(), to only copy as much data as requested by userspace,
up to the value returned by ops-&gt;get_regs_len().

While at it, remove the redundant check for non-null regbuf.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ethtool: not call vzalloc for zero sized memory request</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T06:37:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li RongQing</name>
<email>lirongqing@baidu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-29T01:18:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3d8830266ffc28c16032b859e38a0252e014b631 ]

NULL or ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be returned for zero sized memory
request, and derefencing them will lead to a segfault

so it is unnecessory to call vzalloc for zero sized memory
request and not call functions which maybe derefence the
NULL allocated memory

this also fixes a possible memory leak if phy_ethtool_get_stats
returns error, memory should be freed before exit

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing &lt;lirongqing@baidu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wang Li &lt;wangli39@baidu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3d8830266ffc28c16032b859e38a0252e014b631 ]

NULL or ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be returned for zero sized memory
request, and derefencing them will lead to a segfault

so it is unnecessory to call vzalloc for zero sized memory
request and not call functions which maybe derefence the
NULL allocated memory

this also fixes a possible memory leak if phy_ethtool_get_stats
returns error, memory should be freed before exit

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing &lt;lirongqing@baidu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wang Li &lt;wangli39@baidu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ethtool: fix a privilege escalation bug</title>
<updated>2018-11-04T13:52:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wenwen Wang</name>
<email>wang6495@umn.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-08T15:49:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 58f5bbe331c566f49c9559568f982202a278aa78 ]

In dev_ethtool(), the eth command 'ethcmd' is firstly copied from the
use-space buffer 'useraddr' and checked to see whether it is
ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE. If yes, the sub-command 'sub_cmd' is further copied from
the user space. Otherwise, 'sub_cmd' is the same as 'ethcmd'. Next,
according to 'sub_cmd', a permission check is enforced through the function
ns_capable(). For example, the permission check is required if 'sub_cmd' is
ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE, but it is not necessary if 'sub_cmd' is
ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE, as suggested in the comment "Allow some commands to be
done by anyone". The following execution invokes different handlers
according to 'ethcmd'. Specifically, if 'ethcmd' is ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE,
ethtool_set_per_queue() is called. In ethtool_set_per_queue(), the kernel
object 'per_queue_opt' is copied again from the user-space buffer
'useraddr' and 'per_queue_opt.sub_command' is used to determine which
operation should be performed. Given that the buffer 'useraddr' is in the
user space, a malicious user can race to change the sub-command between the
two copies. In particular, the attacker can supply ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE and
ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE to bypass the permission check in dev_ethtool(). Then
before ethtool_set_per_queue() is called, the attacker changes
ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE to ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE. In this way, the attacker can
bypass the permission check and execute ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE.

This patch enforces a check in ethtool_set_per_queue() after the second
copy from 'useraddr'. If the sub-command is different from the one obtained
in the first copy in dev_ethtool(), an error code EINVAL will be returned.

Fixes: f38d138a7da6 ("net/ethtool: support set coalesce per queue")
Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang &lt;wang6495@umn.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 58f5bbe331c566f49c9559568f982202a278aa78 ]

In dev_ethtool(), the eth command 'ethcmd' is firstly copied from the
use-space buffer 'useraddr' and checked to see whether it is
ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE. If yes, the sub-command 'sub_cmd' is further copied from
the user space. Otherwise, 'sub_cmd' is the same as 'ethcmd'. Next,
according to 'sub_cmd', a permission check is enforced through the function
ns_capable(). For example, the permission check is required if 'sub_cmd' is
ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE, but it is not necessary if 'sub_cmd' is
ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE, as suggested in the comment "Allow some commands to be
done by anyone". The following execution invokes different handlers
according to 'ethcmd'. Specifically, if 'ethcmd' is ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE,
ethtool_set_per_queue() is called. In ethtool_set_per_queue(), the kernel
object 'per_queue_opt' is copied again from the user-space buffer
'useraddr' and 'per_queue_opt.sub_command' is used to determine which
operation should be performed. Given that the buffer 'useraddr' is in the
user space, a malicious user can race to change the sub-command between the
two copies. In particular, the attacker can supply ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE and
ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE to bypass the permission check in dev_ethtool(). Then
before ethtool_set_per_queue() is called, the attacker changes
ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE to ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE. In this way, the attacker can
bypass the permission check and execute ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE.

This patch enforces a check in ethtool_set_per_queue() after the second
copy from 'useraddr'. If the sub-command is different from the one obtained
in the first copy in dev_ethtool(), an error code EINVAL will be returned.

Fixes: f38d138a7da6 ("net/ethtool: support set coalesce per queue")
Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang &lt;wang6495@umn.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net-ethtool: ETHTOOL_GUFO did not and should not require CAP_NET_ADMIN</title>
<updated>2018-10-18T07:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej Żenczykowski</name>
<email>maze@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-22T08:34:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 474ff2600889e16280dbc6ada8bfecb216169a70 ]

So it should not fail with EPERM even though it is no longer implemented...

This is a fix for:
  (userns)$ egrep ^Cap /proc/self/status
  CapInh: 0000003fffffffff
  CapPrm: 0000003fffffffff
  CapEff: 0000003fffffffff
  CapBnd: 0000003fffffffff
  CapAmb: 0000003fffffffff

  (userns)$ tcpdump -i usb_rndis0
  tcpdump: WARNING: usb_rndis0: SIOCETHTOOL(ETHTOOL_GUFO) ioctl failed: Operation not permitted
  Warning: Kernel filter failed: Bad file descriptor
  tcpdump: can't remove kernel filter: Bad file descriptor

With this change it returns EOPNOTSUPP instead of EPERM.

See also https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/689

Fixes: 08a00fea6de2 "net: Remove references to NETIF_F_UFO from ethtool."
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 474ff2600889e16280dbc6ada8bfecb216169a70 ]

So it should not fail with EPERM even though it is no longer implemented...

This is a fix for:
  (userns)$ egrep ^Cap /proc/self/status
  CapInh: 0000003fffffffff
  CapPrm: 0000003fffffffff
  CapEff: 0000003fffffffff
  CapBnd: 0000003fffffffff
  CapAmb: 0000003fffffffff

  (userns)$ tcpdump -i usb_rndis0
  tcpdump: WARNING: usb_rndis0: SIOCETHTOOL(ETHTOOL_GUFO) ioctl failed: Operation not permitted
  Warning: Kernel filter failed: Bad file descriptor
  tcpdump: can't remove kernel filter: Bad file descriptor

With this change it returns EOPNOTSUPP instead of EPERM.

See also https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/689

Fixes: 08a00fea6de2 "net: Remove references to NETIF_F_UFO from ethtool."
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: ethtool: don't ignore return from driver get_fecparam method</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:52:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Cree</name>
<email>ecree@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-28T19:15:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a6d50512b4d86ecd9f5952525e454583be1c3b14 ]

If ethtool_ops-&gt;get_fecparam returns an error, pass that error on to the
 user, rather than ignoring it.

Fixes: 1a5f3da20bd9 ("net: ethtool: add support for forward error correction modes")
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a6d50512b4d86ecd9f5952525e454583be1c3b14 ]

If ethtool_ops-&gt;get_fecparam returns an error, pass that error on to the
 user, rather than ignoring it.

Fixes: 1a5f3da20bd9 ("net: ethtool: add support for forward error correction modes")
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ethtool: do not print warning for applications using legacy API</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T08:45:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>stephen@networkplumber.org</email>
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<published>2017-12-29T18:02:52+00:00</published>
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In kernel log ths message appears on every boot:
 "warning: `NetworkChangeNo' uses legacy ethtool link settings API,
  link modes are only partially reported"

When ethtool link settings API changed, it started complaining about
usages of old API. Ironically, the original patch was from google but
the application using the legacy API is chrome.

Linux ABI is fixed as much as possible. The kernel must not break it
and should not complain about applications using legacy API's.
This patch just removes the warning since using legacy API's
in Linux is perfectly acceptable.

Fixes: 3f1ac7a700d0 ("net: ethtool: add new ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS API")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Decotigny &lt;decot@googlers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 71891e2dab6b55a870f8f7735e44a2963860b5c6 ]

In kernel log ths message appears on every boot:
 "warning: `NetworkChangeNo' uses legacy ethtool link settings API,
  link modes are only partially reported"

When ethtool link settings API changed, it started complaining about
usages of old API. Ironically, the original patch was from google but
the application using the legacy API is chrome.

Linux ABI is fixed as much as possible. The kernel must not break it
and should not complain about applications using legacy API's.
This patch just removes the warning since using legacy API's
in Linux is perfectly acceptable.

Fixes: 3f1ac7a700d0 ("net: ethtool: add new ETHTOOL_xLINKSETTINGS API")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Decotigny &lt;decot@googlers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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