linux-kernel - BUG: Bisected Gianfar in bridge not forwarding packets (was: 3.0-rc1 Bridge not forwarding unicast packages)

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Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:50:20 +0200
From:	Michael Guntsche <mguntsche@...il.com>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com, jpirko@...hat.com,
	sebastian.belden@...glemail.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: BUG: Bisected Gianfar in bridge not forwarding packets (was: 3.0-rc1
 Bridge not forwarding unicast packages)

Good evening/morning,

> I just upgraded my router/bridge combo to 3.1-rc1 from 3.0 for
> testing. On a first look everything seemed to work fine, but when I
> tried to connect via openvpn to my internal network (tap0 being bridged
> with the internal network) I noticed that I was not able to access the
> server on my internal network. I could access the bridge (which is
> acting as the openvpn server as well) just fine though.
> To debug this I ran tcpdump on the openvpn client and started a ping to the
> internal network. I could see the ARP requests being answered.....
<snip>

After much digging and testing I found the commit that causes the
problem for me here.

87c288c6e gianfar: do vlan cleanup

Before this commit my bridge works fine. I simplified the test case
and just tried to access the server from a local wireless device with
gets also bridged via
a gianfar nic to the wired lan. Before commit 87c288c6e I can ping the
device from the internal network afterwards it stops.
For testing purposes I reverted this commit (plus some others to make
the code compile) and it started working again.
The hardware is a routerboard with three onboard nics two of em gianfar.
The gianfar nics do not support any kind of offloading,

Offload parameters for lan_wire:
rx-checksumming: off
tx-checksumming: off
scatter-gather: off
tcp-segmentation-offload: off
udp-fragmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: off
generic-receive-offload: on
large-receive-offload: off
rx-vlan-offload: off
tx-vlan-offload: off
ntuple-filters: off
receive-hashing: off

The Bridge device on the other hand....

Offload parameters for lan:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: off
tcp-segmentation-offload: off
udp-fragmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: off
generic-receive-offload: on
large-receive-offload: off
rx-vlan-offload: off
tx-vlan-offload: on
ntuple-filters: off
receive-hashing: off

Is it possible that the new code is tripped up by the bridge offload
parameters somehow and thinks that the gianfar nic supports it as
well?
As I wrote in my initial mail, connecting to the Bridge itself works,
I can also see ARP requests and Broadcasts, the rest just seems to
disappear.

As for the commits I reverted:
a4aeb2662 vlan: kill __vlan_hwaccel_rx and vlan_hwaccel_rx
6dacaddd4 vlan: kill vlan_hwaccel_receive_skb
7890a5b9c vlan: kill ndo_vlan_rx_register
b852b7208 gianfar: fix bug caused by 87c288c6e9aa31720b72e2bc2d665e24e1653c3e

87c288c6e gianfar: do vlan cleanup

I really think that there is only some small change in the gianfar
code needed, but I could not figure it out myself.
Please tell me if you need any more information.

Kind regards,
Michael Guntsche
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