[PATCH net] macvlan: filter out unsupported feature flags

[PATCH net] macvlan: filter out unsupported feature flags

[Shannon Nelson]

Adding a macvlan device on top of a lowerdev that supports
the xfrm offloads fails with a new regression:
  # ip link add link ens1f0 mv0 type macvlan
  RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted

Tracing down the failure shows that the macvlan device inherits
the NETIF_F_HW_ESP and NETIF_F_HW_ESP_TX_CSUM feature flags
from the lowerdev, but with no dev->xfrmdev_ops API filled
in, it doesn't actually support xfrm.  When the request is
made to add the new macvlan device, the XFRM listener for
NETDEV_REGISTER calls xfrm_api_check() which fails the new
registration because dev->xfrmdev_ops is NULL.

The macvlan creation succeeds when we filter out the ESP
feature flags in macvlan_fix_features(), so let's filter them
out like we're already filtering out ~NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL.
When XFRM support is added in the future, we can add the flags
into MACVLAN_FEATURES.

This same problem could crop up in the future with any other
new feature flags, so let's filter out any flags that aren't
defined as supported in macvlan.

Fixes: d77e38e612a0 ("xfrm: Add an IPsec hardware offloading API")
Reported-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
---
 drivers/net/macvlan.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 8fc02d9..725f4b4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ static netdev_features_t macvlan_fix_features(struct net_device *dev,
 	lowerdev_features &= (features | ~NETIF_F_LRO);
 	features = netdev_increment_features(lowerdev_features, features, mask);
 	features |= ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES;
-	features &= ~NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
+	features &= (ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES | MACVLAN_FEATURES);
 
 	return features;
 }
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH net] macvlan: filter out unsupported feature flags

[David Miller]

From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
Date: Thu,  8 Mar 2018 16:17:23 -0800

> Adding a macvlan device on top of a lowerdev that supports
> the xfrm offloads fails with a new regression:
>   # ip link add link ens1f0 mv0 type macvlan
>   RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
> 
> Tracing down the failure shows that the macvlan device inherits
> the NETIF_F_HW_ESP and NETIF_F_HW_ESP_TX_CSUM feature flags
> from the lowerdev, but with no dev->xfrmdev_ops API filled
> in, it doesn't actually support xfrm.  When the request is
> made to add the new macvlan device, the XFRM listener for
> NETDEV_REGISTER calls xfrm_api_check() which fails the new
> registration because dev->xfrmdev_ops is NULL.
> 
> The macvlan creation succeeds when we filter out the ESP
> feature flags in macvlan_fix_features(), so let's filter them
> out like we're already filtering out ~NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL.
> When XFRM support is added in the future, we can add the flags
> into MACVLAN_FEATURES.
> 
> This same problem could crop up in the future with any other
> new feature flags, so let's filter out any flags that aren't
> defined as supported in macvlan.
> 
> Fixes: d77e38e612a0 ("xfrm: Add an IPsec hardware offloading API")
> Reported-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>

Applied, thanks.