From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com ([198.2.177.1]:6203 "EHLO mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752452AbcB2WpQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:45:16 -0500 Received: from pmta06.mandrill.prod.suw01.rsglab.com (127.0.0.1) by mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com id hqj4vo22rtk9 for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:45:07 +0000 (envelope-from ) From: Subject: Patch "net/mlx4_en: Avoid changing dev->features directly in run-time" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: , , , Cc: , Message-Id: <145678590632227@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:45:07 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx4_en: Avoid changing dev->features directly in run-time to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mlx4_en-avoid-changing-dev-features-directly-in-run-time.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Mon Feb 29 14:33:50 PST 2016 From: Eugenia Emantayev Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:24:27 +0200 Subject: net/mlx4_en: Avoid changing dev->features directly in run-time From: Eugenia Emantayev [ Upstream commit 925ab1aa9394bbaeac47ee5b65d3fdf0fb8135cf ] It's forbidden to manually change dev->features in run-time. Currently, this is done in the driver to make sure that GSO_UDP_TUNNEL is advertized only when VXLAN tunnel is set. However, since the stack actually does features intersection with hw_enc_features, we can safely revert to advertizing features early when registering the netdevice. Fixes: f4a1edd56120 ('net/mlx4_en: Advertize encapsulation offloads [...]') Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c @@ -2381,8 +2381,6 @@ out: /* set offloads */ priv->dev->hw_enc_features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL; - priv->dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL; - priv->dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL; } static void mlx4_en_del_vxlan_offloads(struct work_struct *work) @@ -2393,8 +2391,6 @@ static void mlx4_en_del_vxlan_offloads(s /* unset offloads */ priv->dev->hw_enc_features &= ~(NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL); - priv->dev->hw_features &= ~NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL; - priv->dev->features &= ~NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL; ret = mlx4_SET_PORT_VXLAN(priv->mdev->dev, priv->port, VXLAN_STEER_BY_OUTER_MAC, 0); @@ -3020,6 +3016,11 @@ int mlx4_en_init_netdev(struct mlx4_en_d priv->rss_hash_fn = ETH_RSS_HASH_TOP; } + if (mdev->dev->caps.tunnel_offload_mode == MLX4_TUNNEL_OFFLOAD_MODE_VXLAN) { + dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL; + dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL; + } + mdev->pndev[port] = dev; mdev->upper[port] = NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eugenia@mellanox.com are queue-4.4/net-mlx4_en-count-hw-buffer-overrun-only-once.patch queue-4.4/net-mlx4_en-choose-time-stamping-shift-value-according-to-hw-frequency.patch queue-4.4/net-mlx4_en-avoid-changing-dev-features-directly-in-run-time.patch