Re: [PATCH net-next v8 02/14] ethtool: helper functions for netlink interface

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 12/22/2019 3:45 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> Add common request/reply header definition and helpers to parse request
> header and fill reply header. Provide ethnl_update_* helpers to update
> structure members from request attributes (to be used for *_SET requests).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
> ---

[snip]

> +/**
> + * ethnl_update_u32() - update u32 value from NLA_U32 attribute
> + * @dst:  value to update
> + * @attr: netlink attribute with new value or null
> + * @mod:  pointer to bool for modification tracking
> + *
> + * Copy the u32 value from NLA_U32 netlink attribute @attr into variable
> + * pointed to by @dst; do nothing if @attr is null. Bool pointed to by @mod
> + * is set to true if this function changed the value of *dst, otherwise it
> + * is left as is.
> + */

I would find it more intuitive if an integer was returned: < 0 in case
of error, 0 if no change and 1 if something changed.

> +static inline void ethnl_update_u32(u32 *dst, const struct nlattr *attr,
> +				    bool *mod)
> +{
> +	u32 val;
> +
> +	if (!attr)
> +		return;
> +	val = nla_get_u32(attr);
> +	if (*dst == val)
> +		return;
> +
> +	*dst = val;
> +	*mod = true;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * ethnl_update_u8() - update u8 value from NLA_U8 attribute
> + * @dst:  value to update
> + * @attr: netlink attribute with new value or null
> + * @mod:  pointer to bool for modification tracking
> + *
> + * Copy the u8 value from NLA_U8 netlink attribute @attr into variable
> + * pointed to by @dst; do nothing if @attr is null. Bool pointed to by @mod
> + * is set to true if this function changed the value of *dst, otherwise it
> + * is left as is.
> + */
> +static inline void ethnl_update_u8(u8 *dst, const struct nlattr *attr,
> +				   bool *mod)
> +{
> +	u8 val;
> +
> +	if (!attr)
> +		return;
> +	val = nla_get_u32(attr);

Should not this be nla_get_u8() here? This sounds like it is going to
break on BE machines.
-- 
Florian