netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_en: Don't configure the HW vxlan parser when vxlan offloading isn't set

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Date:	Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:40:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, amirv@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_en: Don't configure the HW vxlan parser
 when vxlan offloading isn't set

From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Date: Wed,  2 Jul 2014 17:36:23 +0300

> The add_vxlan_port ndo driver code was wrongly testing whether HW vxlan offloads
> are supported by the device instead of checking if they are currently enabled.
> 
> This causes the driver to configure the HW parser to conduct matching for vxlan
> packets but since no steering rules were set, vxlan packets are dropped on RX.
> 
> Fix that by doing the right test, as done in the del_vxlan_port ndo handler.
> 
> Fixes: 1b136de ('net/mlx4: Implement vxlan ndo calls')
> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
> ---
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> This fixes a bug from 3.15-rc1, can you please push to 3.15.y too?

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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