[PATCH net] netconsole: fix appending sysdata when sysdata_fields == SYSDATA_RELEASE

From: Gustavo Luiz Duarte
Date: Mon Jun 09 2025 - 14:26:01 EST


Before appending sysdata, prepare_extradata() checks if any feature is
enabled in sysdata_fields (and exits early if none is enabled).

When SYSDATA_RELEASE was introduced, we missed adding it to the list of
features being checked against sysdata_fields in prepare_extradata().
The result was that, if only SYSDATA_RELEASE is enabled in
sysdata_fields, we incorreclty exit early and fail to append the
release.

Instead of checking specific bits in sysdata_fields, check if
sysdata_fields has ALL bit zeroed and exit early if true. This fixes
case when only SYSDATA_RELEASE enabled and makes the code more general /
less error prone in future feature implementation.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 4289ccd3e41b..176935a8645f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -1252,7 +1252,6 @@ static int sysdata_append_release(struct netconsole_target *nt, int offset)
*/
static int prepare_extradata(struct netconsole_target *nt)
{
- u32 fields = SYSDATA_CPU_NR | SYSDATA_TASKNAME;
int extradata_len;

/* userdata was appended when configfs write helper was called
@@ -1260,7 +1259,7 @@ static int prepare_extradata(struct netconsole_target *nt)
*/
extradata_len = nt->userdata_length;

- if (!(nt->sysdata_fields & fields))
+ if (!nt->sysdata_fields)
goto out;

if (nt->sysdata_fields & SYSDATA_CPU_NR)

---
base-commit: 19272b37aa4f83ca52bdf9c16d5d81bdd1354494
change-id: 20250609-netconsole-fix-5465e2fd8f83

Best regards,
--
Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@xxxxxxxxx>