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RDMA/ipoib: Allow user space differentiate between valid dev_port

Systemd triggers the following warning during IPoIB device load:

mlx5_core 0000:00:0c.0 ib0: "systemd-udevd" wants to know my dev_id.
Should it look at dev_port instead?
See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.

This is caused due to user space attempt to differentiate old systems
without dev_port and new systems with dev_port. In case dev_port will be
zero, the systemd will try to read dev_id instead.

There is no need to print a warning in such case, because it is valid
situation and it is needed to ensure systemd compatibility with old
kernels.

Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#L358
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19
Fixes: f6350da41dc7 ("IB/ipoib: Log sysfs 'dev_id' accesses from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>

authored by

Leon Romanovsky and committed by
Jason Gunthorpe
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drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
··· 2402 2402 { 2403 2403 struct net_device *ndev = to_net_dev(dev); 2404 2404 2405 - if (ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port) 2405 + /* 2406 + * ndev->dev_port will be equal to 0 in old kernel prior to commit 2407 + * 9b8b2a323008 ("IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface 2408 + * port numbers") Zero was chosen as special case for user space 2409 + * applications to fallback and query dev_id to check if it has 2410 + * different value or not. 2411 + * 2412 + * Don't print warning in such scenario. 2413 + * 2414 + * https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#L358 2415 + */ 2416 + if (ndev->dev_port && ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port) 2406 2417 netdev_info_once(ndev, 2407 2418 "\"%s\" wants to know my dev_id. Should it look at dev_port instead? See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.\n", 2408 2419 current->comm);