[PATCH 5.14 106/151] net/mlx5e: Switchdev representors are not vlan challenged

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-18T14:03:02Z

From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>

commit b2107cdc43d8601f2cadfba990ae844cc1f44e68 upstream.

Before this patch, mlx5 representors advertised the
NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED bit, this could lead to missing features when
using reps with vxlan/bridge and maybe other virtual interfaces,
when such interfaces inherit this bit and block vlan usage in their
topology.

Example:
$ip link add dev bridge type bridge
# add representor interface to the bridge
$ip link set dev pf0hpf master
$ip link add link bridge name vlan10 type vlan id 10 protocol 802.1q
Error: 8021q: VLANs not supported on device.

Reps are perfectly capable of handling vlan traffic, although they don't
implement vlan_{add,kill}_vid ndos, hence, remove
NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED advertisement.

Fixes: cb67b832921c ("net/mlx5e: Introduce SRIOV VF representors")
Reported-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
@@ -611,7 +611,6 @@ static void mlx5e_build_rep_netdev(struc
netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_RXCSUM;

netdev->features |= netdev->hw_features;
- netdev->features |= NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED;
netdev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
}