netdev - Re: [PATCH] be2net: Adding support for 802.1ad (q-in-q mode)

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:15:03 +0530
From:	Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwarb@...verengines.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be2net: Adding support for 802.1ad (q-in-q mode)

On 23/07/09 11:25 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Sarveshwar Bandi wrote:
> > On 23/07/09 11:07 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >>> Patch has code to check if the controller is in q-in-q mode. When the packet
> >>> has two vids, only the inner vid is passed onto the stack. The stack is never
> >>> made aware of the outer vid.
> >>
> >> But you're still using the outer VLAN group when passing the packet to
> >> the VLAN code, so the association to the correct VLAN device can't work.
> >
> > In the case where packet comes with two vlan ids, the rx descriptor contains
> > the inner vlan id and qnq is set to 1, the driver indicates this vid to the
> > stack.
> > In the case where packet comes with single vlan id, the rx descriptor
> > contains the outer vlan id and qnq is set to 0, the driver indicates this
> > packet as a non-vlan packet to the stack by calling netif_receive_skb.
> 
> I understand that. But the driver does:
> 
> 	if (vtp) {
> 		if (!adapter->vlan_grp || adapter->num_vlans == 0) {
> 			kfree_skb(skb);
> 			return;
> 		}
> 		vid = AMAP_GET_BITS(struct amap_eth_rx_compl, vlan_tag, rxcp);
> 		vid = be16_to_cpu(vid);
> 		vlan_hwaccel_receive_skb(skb, adapter->vlan_grp, vid);
> 	}
> 
> adapter->vlan_grp will always be the VLAN group associated directly with
> the device, which is the group for the outer tag, not the inner one. So
> this can't properly associate packets with the correct VLAN device.
>
In this case, vid is the inner vlan id in the packet. This is also the
vlan id configured by vconfig. 
In the other case where packet had a single vlan tag, the following code
will set vlanf to 0 (vtp now renamed to vlanf in the patch) and will be
indicated as a non-vlan packet.
       if (adapter->qnq && !qnq)
               vlanf = 0;
 
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