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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c index 9b0fbab41dc6..31c7efaf8e7a 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c @@ -389,14 +389,26 @@ static ssize_t show_port_gid(struct ib_port *p, struct port_attribute *attr, { struct port_table_attribute *tab_attr = container_of(attr, struct port_table_attribute, attr); + union ib_gid *pgid; union ib_gid gid; ssize_t ret; ret = ib_query_gid(p->ibdev, p->port_num, tab_attr->index, &gid, NULL); - if (ret) - return ret; - return sprintf(buf, "%pI6\n", gid.raw); + /* If reading GID fails, it is likely due to GID entry being empty + * (invalid) or reserved GID in the table. + * User space expects to read GID table entries as long as it given + * index is within GID table size. + * Administrative/debugging tool fails to query rest of the GID entries + * if it hits error while querying a GID of the given index. + * To avoid user space throwing such error on fail to read gid, return + * zero GID as before. This maintains backward compatibility. + */ + if (ret) + pgid = &zgid; + else + pgid = &gid; + return sprintf(buf, "%pI6\n", pgid->raw); } static ssize_t show_port_gid_attr_ndev(struct ib_port *p, |