[PATCH 5.2 16/94] net: dsa: tag_8021q: Future-proof the reserved fields in the custom VID

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-08T12:56:23Z

From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit bcccb0a535bb99616e4b992568371efab1ab14e8 ]

After witnessing the discussion in https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/14/151
w.r.t. ioctl extensibility, it became clear that such an issue might
prevent that the 3 RSV bits inside the DSA 802.1Q tag might also suffer
the same fate and be useless for further extension.

So clearly specify that the reserved bits should currently be
transmitted as zero and ignored on receive. The DSA tagger already does
this (and has always did), and is the only known user so far (no
Wireshark dissection plugin, etc). So there should be no incompatibility
to speak of.

Fixes: 0471dd429cea ("net: dsa: tag_8021q: Create a stable binary format")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/dsa/tag_8021q.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/net/dsa/tag_8021q.c
+++ b/net/dsa/tag_8021q.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
*
* RSV - VID[9]:
* To be used for further expansion of SWITCH_ID or for other purposes.
+ * Must be transmitted as zero and ignored on receive.
*
* SWITCH_ID - VID[8:6]:
* Index of switch within DSA tree. Must be between 0 and
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
*
* RSV - VID[5:4]:
* To be used for further expansion of PORT or for other purposes.
+ * Must be transmitted as zero and ignored on receive.
*
* PORT - VID[3:0]:
* Index of switch port. Must be between 0 and DSA_MAX_PORTS - 1.