ethtool: return error if command does not support --json

The --json switch is currently best effort, which is similar
to how other networking utilities treat it. Change to returning
an error if selected command does not support --json.

ethtool is more complex than other utilities because the JSON
support depends on both user space and kernel version. Older
kernel make ethtool use the IOCTL and none of the IOCTL handlers
support JSON.

The current behavior is counter-productive when trying to query
statistics - user has to check (1) if stats (-I) are supported,
(2) if json is supported (--json) and then (3) if underlying
device populates the statistic. Making --json fail if not supported
allows (1) and (2) to both be taken care of with simple check
of ethtool's exit code.

Link: https://pagure.io/centos-sig-hyperscale/package-bugs/issue/6
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ethtool.c b/ethtool.c
index 9e02fe4..bd6242e 100644
--- a/ethtool.c
+++ b/ethtool.c
@@ -5619,6 +5619,7 @@ static int show_usage(struct cmd_context *ctx);
 struct option {
 	const char	*opts;
 	bool		no_dev;
+	bool		json;
 	int		(*func)(struct cmd_context *);
 	nl_chk_t	nlchk;
 	nl_func_t	nlfunc;
@@ -5655,6 +5656,7 @@ static const struct option args[] = {
 	},
 	{
 		.opts	= "-a|--show-pause",
+		.json	= true,
 		.func	= do_gpause,
 		.nlfunc	= nl_gpause,
 		.help	= "Show pause options"
@@ -5779,6 +5781,7 @@ static const struct option args[] = {
 	},
 	{
 		.opts	= "-S|--statistics",
+		.json	= true,
 		.func	= do_gnicstats,
 		.nlchk	= nl_gstats_chk,
 		.nlfunc	= nl_gstats,
@@ -5990,6 +5993,7 @@ static const struct option args[] = {
 	},
 	{
 		.opts	= "--show-fec",
+		.json	= true,
 		.func	= do_gfec,
 		.nlfunc	= nl_gfec,
 		.help	= "Show FEC settings",
@@ -6010,11 +6014,13 @@ static const struct option args[] = {
 	},
 	{
 		.opts	= "--cable-test",
+		.json	= true,
 		.nlfunc	= nl_cable_test,
 		.help	= "Perform a cable test",
 	},
 	{
 		.opts	= "--cable-test-tdr",
+		.json	= true,
 		.nlfunc	= nl_cable_test_tdr,
 		.help	= "Print cable test time domain reflectrometery data",
 		.xhelp	= "		[ first N ]\n"
@@ -6361,10 +6367,15 @@ int main(int argc, char **argp)
 		if (!ctx.devname)
 			exit_bad_args();
 	}
+	if (ctx.json && !args[k].json)
+		exit_bad_args();
 	ctx.argc = argc;
 	ctx.argp = argp;
 	netlink_run_handler(&ctx, args[k].nlchk, args[k].nlfunc, !args[k].func);
 
+	if (ctx.json) /* no IOCTL command supports JSON output */
+		exit_bad_args();
+
 	ret = ioctl_init(&ctx, args[k].no_dev);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;