Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: fix ethtool msg len calculation for pause stats

[Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>]

On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 21:21 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_MAX is the MAX attribute id,
> so we need to subtract non-stats and add one to
> get a count (IOW -2+1 == -1).
> 
> Otherwise we'll see:
> 
>   ethnl cmd 21: calculated reply length 40, but consumed 52
> 
> Fixes: 9a27a33027f2 ("ethtool: add standard pause stats")
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>

> ---
>  net/ethtool/pause.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ethtool/pause.c b/net/ethtool/pause.c
> index 9009f412151e..c9171234130b 100644
> --- a/net/ethtool/pause.c
> +++ b/net/ethtool/pause.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static int pause_reply_size(const struct
> ethnl_req_info *req_base,
>         if (req_base->flags & ETHTOOL_FLAG_STATS)
>                 n += nla_total_size(0) +        /* _PAUSE_STATS */
>                         nla_total_size_64bit(sizeof(u64)) *
> -                               (ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_MAX - 2);
> +                               (ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_MAX - 1);

Maybe for net-next we can improve readability here.
Just by staring at these lines, you'd think that this should've been
(ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_MAX + 1), or even better, just
(ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_CNT) /* Count of only stats */

maybe we need to separate stats from non-stats, or define
ETHTOOL_A_PAUSE_STAT_CNT where it needs to be defined.