Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Zero memory allocated for statistics

2016-10-15 Thread David Miller
From: Vlad Tsyrklevich Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 15:11:08 + > I agree that we should propagate those errors and I'll prepare a new change > to do so for phy_driver.get_stats(), ethtool_ops.self_test(), and > ethtool_ops.get_ethtool_stats(). However, I still think this change should > be adopted.

Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Zero memory allocated for statistics

2016-10-15 Thread Vlad Tsyrklevich
I agree that we should propagate those errors and I'll prepare a new change to do so for phy_driver.get_stats(), ethtool_ops.self_test(), and ethtool_ops.get_ethtool_stats(). However, I still think this change should be adopted. 3/5 of the cases here are reachable without any special capabilities a

Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Zero memory allocated for statistics

2016-10-14 Thread David Miller
From: Vlad Tsyrklevich Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:59:18 +0200 > enic_get_ethtool_stats() Looknig merely at this shows the real problem. We don't propagate and handle errors for this method. And that's what we should fix, making the get_ethtool_stats() method return an integer error. Then ethto