netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: account for VLAN header in frame length calculations

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:30:05 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Clemens Gruber <mail@...mensgruber.at>
Cc: wei.fang@....com, andrew+netdev@...n.ch, davem@...emloft.net,
 edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: account for VLAN header in frame length
 calculations

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>:

On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:37:51 +0100 you wrote:
> The MAX_FL (maximum frame length) and related calculations used ETH_HLEN,
> which does not account for the 4-byte VLAN tag in tagged frames. This
> caused the hardware to reject valid VLAN frames as oversized, resulting
> in RX errors and dropped packets.
> 
> Use VLAN_ETH_HLEN instead of ETH_HLEN in the MAX_FL register setup,
> cut-through mode threshold, buffer allocation, and max_mtu calculation.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v2] net: fec: account for VLAN header in frame length calculations
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/ca1bb3fedf26

You are awesome, thank you!
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