Some statistics passed to ethtool are garbage because e1000e_get_stats64()
doesn't write them, for example: tx_heartbeat_errors. This leaks kernel
memory to userspace and confuses users.
Do like ixgbe and use dev_get_stats() which first zeroes out
rtnl_link_stats64.
Reported-by: Stefan Priebe <s.pri...@profihost.ag>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoir...@suse.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c
index 7aff68a4a4df..f117b90cdc2f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c
@@ -2063,7 +2063,7 @@ static void e1000_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device
*netdev,
pm_runtime_get_sync(netdev->dev.parent);
- e1000e_get_stats64(netdev, &net_stats);
+ dev_get_stats(netdev, &net_stats);
pm_runtime_put_sync(netdev->dev.parent);
--
2.12.2
