Given that it takes time to run a cable test, send a notify message at the start, as well as when it is completed.
v3: EMSGSIZE when ethnl_bcastmsg_put() fails Print an error message on failure, since this is a void function. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> --- net/ethtool/cabletest.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ethtool/cabletest.c b/net/ethtool/cabletest.c index e0c917918c70..2d1ad343bd4f 100644 --- a/net/ethtool/cabletest.c +++ b/net/ethtool/cabletest.c @@ -13,6 +13,41 @@ cable_test_act_policy[ETHTOOL_A_CABLE_TEST_MAX + 1] = { [ETHTOOL_A_CABLE_TEST_HEADER] = { .type = NLA_NESTED }, }; +static void ethnl_cable_test_started(struct phy_device *phydev) +{ + struct sk_buff *skb; + int err = -ENOMEM; + void *ehdr; + + skb = genlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!skb) + goto out; + + ehdr = ethnl_bcastmsg_put(skb, ETHTOOL_MSG_CABLE_TEST_NTF); + if (!ehdr) { + err = -EMSGSIZE; + goto out; + } + + err = ethnl_fill_reply_header(skb, phydev->attached_dev, + ETHTOOL_A_CABLE_TEST_NTF_HEADER); + if (err) + goto out; + + err = nla_put_u8(skb, ETHTOOL_A_CABLE_TEST_NTF_STATUS, + ETHTOOL_A_CABLE_TEST_NTF_STATUS_STARTED); + if (err) + goto out; + + genlmsg_end(skb, ehdr); + ethnl_multicast(skb, phydev->attached_dev); + return; + +out: + nlmsg_free(skb); + phydev_err(phydev, "%s: Error %pe\n", __func__, ERR_PTR(err)); +} + int ethnl_act_cable_test(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) { struct nlattr *tb[ETHTOOL_A_CABLE_TEST_MAX + 1]; @@ -47,6 +82,10 @@ int ethnl_act_cable_test(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) ret = phy_start_cable_test(dev->phydev, info->extack); ethnl_ops_complete(dev); + + if (!ret) + ethnl_cable_test_started(dev->phydev); + out_rtnl: rtnl_unlock(); out_dev_put: -- 2.26.2