6.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Vadim Fedorenko vadfed@meta.com
[ Upstream commit e8ab231782e92bc26e5eb605263525636a2f7ae7 ]
Timestamping configuration through ethtool has inconsistent behavior of skipping the reply for set command if configuration was not changed. Fix it be providing reply in any case.
Fixes: 6e9e2eed4f39d ("net: ethtool: Add support for tsconfig command to get/set hwtstamp config") Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko vadfed@meta.com Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent kory.maincent@bootlin.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922231924.2769571-1-vadfed@meta.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/ethtool/tsconfig.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ethtool/tsconfig.c b/net/ethtool/tsconfig.c index 2be356bdfe873..169b413b31fc5 100644 --- a/net/ethtool/tsconfig.c +++ b/net/ethtool/tsconfig.c @@ -423,13 +423,11 @@ static int ethnl_set_tsconfig(struct ethnl_req_info *req_base, return ret; }
- if (hwprov_mod || config_mod) { - ret = tsconfig_send_reply(dev, info); - if (ret && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP) { - NL_SET_ERR_MSG(info->extack, - "error while reading the new configuration set"); - return ret; - } + ret = tsconfig_send_reply(dev, info); + if (ret && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG(info->extack, + "error while reading the new configuration set"); + return ret; }
/* tsconfig has no notification */