netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 net] stmmac: added support for 802.1ad vlan stripping

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Message-Id: <20180615.090620.439725036796865207.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:06:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eladv6@...il.com
Cc:     makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp, Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        peppe.cavallaro@...com, alexandre.torgue@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net] stmmac: added support for 802.1ad vlan stripping

From: Elad Nachman <eladv6@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:57:39 +0300

> stmmac reception handler calls stmmac_rx_vlan() to strip the vlan before 
> calling napi_gro_receive().
> 
> The function assumes VLAN tagged frames are always tagged with 
> 802.1Q protocol, and assigns ETH_P_8021Q to the skb by hard-coding
> the parameter on call to __vlan_hwaccel_put_tag() .
> 
> This causes packets not to be passed to the VLAN slave if it was created 
> with 802.1AD protocol
> (ip link add link eth0 eth0.100 type vlan proto 802.1ad id 100).
> 
> This fix passes the protocol from the VLAN header into 
> __vlan_hwaccel_put_tag() instead of using the hard-coded value of
> ETH_P_8021Q.
> 
> NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX check was added and the strip action is now
> dependent on the correct combination of features and the detected vlan tag.
> 
> NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX feature was added to be in line with the driver 
> actual abilities.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elad Nachman <eladn@...at.com>

Applied, thank you.