[PATCH net-next 5/5] netconsole: use netpoll_parse_ip_addr in local_ip_store

From: Breno Leitao
Date: Fri Jul 18 2025 - 07:54:20 EST


Replace manual IP address parsing with a call to netpoll_parse_ip_addr
in remote_ip_store(), simplifying the code and reducing the chance of
errors.

The error message got removed, since it is not a good practice to
pr_err() if used pass a wrong value in configfs.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 22 +++++-----------------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 3044349c5fe37..de6f1a7c24cc0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -776,6 +776,7 @@ static ssize_t remote_ip_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
{
struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
+ int ipv6;

mutex_lock(&dynamic_netconsole_mutex);
if (nt->enabled) {
@@ -784,23 +785,10 @@ static ssize_t remote_ip_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
goto out_unlock;
}

- if (strnchr(buf, count, ':')) {
- const char *end;
-
- if (in6_pton(buf, count, nt->np.remote_ip.in6.s6_addr, -1, &end) > 0) {
- if (*end && *end != '\n') {
- pr_err("invalid IPv6 address at: <%c>\n", *end);
- goto out_unlock;
- }
- nt->np.ipv6 = true;
- } else
- goto out_unlock;
- } else {
- if (!nt->np.ipv6)
- nt->np.remote_ip.ip = in_aton(buf);
- else
- goto out_unlock;
- }
+ ipv6 = netpoll_parse_ip_addr(buf, &nt->np.remote_ip);
+ if (ipv6 == -1)
+ goto out_unlock;
+ nt->np.ipv6 = ipv6;

ret = strnlen(buf, count);
out_unlock:

--
2.47.1