Re: [PATCH net] net: bridge: Bounce invalid boolopts

Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge,gmane.linux.network
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/5/25 14:12, Petr Machata wrote:
> The bridge driver currently tolerates options that it does not recognize.
> Instead, it should bounce them.
> 
> Fixes: a428afe82f98 ("net: bridge: add support for user-controlled bool options")
> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
> ---
>   net/bridge/br.c | 7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br.c b/net/bridge/br.c
> index 4bfaf543835a..512872a2ef81 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br.c
> @@ -346,6 +346,13 @@ int br_boolopt_multi_toggle(struct net_bridge *br,
>   	int err = 0;
>   	int opt_id;
>   
> +	opt_id = find_next_bit(&bitmap, BITS_PER_LONG, BR_BOOLOPT_MAX);
> +	if (opt_id != BITS_PER_LONG) {
> +		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT_MOD(extack, "Unknown boolean option %d",
> +				       opt_id);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
>   	for_each_set_bit(opt_id, &bitmap, BR_BOOLOPT_MAX) {
>   		bool on = !!(bm->optval & BIT(opt_id));
>   

IIRC at the time we did this was on purpose, the mask that is returned should
show which options were actually set without disrupting the call.

Anyway I'm ok with returning an error for such options as well, thanks!

Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
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