6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch
commit f55d8e60f10909dbc5524e261041e1d28d7d20d8 upstream.
This function takes a pointer to a pointer, unlike sprintf() which is passed a plain pointer. Fix up the documentation to make this clear.
Fixes: 7888fe53b706 ("ethtool: Add common function for filling out strings") Cc: Alexander Duyck alexanderduyck@fb.com Cc: Justin Stitt justinstitt@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt justinstitt@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231028192511.100001-1-andrew@lunn.ch Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- include/linux/ethtool.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/ethtool.h +++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h @@ -836,10 +836,10 @@ int ethtool_get_phc_vclocks(struct net_d
/** * ethtool_sprintf - Write formatted string to ethtool string data - * @data: Pointer to start of string to update + * @data: Pointer to a pointer to the start of string to update * @fmt: Format of string to write * - * Write formatted string to data. Update data to point at start of + * Write formatted string to *data. Update *data to point at start of * next string. */ extern __printf(2, 3) void ethtool_sprintf(u8 **data, const char *fmt, ...);