From: Danielle Ratson Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:09:34 +0000 (+0300) Subject: net: ethtool: Monotonically increase the message sequence number X-Git-Tag: v6.11-rc1~163^2~32 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=275a63c9fe10f39066782d2d775d7d3efb20b01f;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git net: ethtool: Monotonically increase the message sequence number Currently, during the module firmware flashing process, unicast notifications are sent from the kernel using the same sequence number, making it impossible for user space to track missed notifications. Monotonically increase the message sequence number, so the order of notifications could be tracked effectively. Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240711080934.2071869-1-danieller@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- diff --git a/net/ethtool/module.c b/net/ethtool/module.c index aba78436d350a..6988e07bdcd6d 100644 --- a/net/ethtool/module.c +++ b/net/ethtool/module.c @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ ethnl_module_fw_flash_ntf(struct net_device *dev, if (!skb) return; - hdr = ethnl_unicast_put(skb, ntf_params->portid, ntf_params->seq, + hdr = ethnl_unicast_put(skb, ntf_params->portid, ++ntf_params->seq, ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_FW_FLASH_NTF); if (!hdr) goto err_skb;