This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: dsa: tag_lan9303: let DSA core deal with TX reallocation to the 5.10-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-dsa-tag_lan9303-let-dsa-core-deal-with-tx-reallo.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 144ccb61f5c40c1854bb165a16a2d2b3fa47abe8 Author: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun Nov 1 21:16:15 2020 +0200 net: dsa: tag_lan9303: let DSA core deal with TX reallocation [ Upstream commit 6ed94135f58372cdec34cafb60f7596893b0b371 ] Now that we have a central TX reallocation procedure that accounts for the tagger's needed headroom in a generic way, we can remove the skb_cow_head call. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/dsa/tag_lan9303.c b/net/dsa/tag_lan9303.c index ccfb6f641bbf..aa1318dccaf0 100644 --- a/net/dsa/tag_lan9303.c +++ b/net/dsa/tag_lan9303.c @@ -58,15 +58,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *lan9303_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) __be16 *lan9303_tag; u16 tag; - /* insert a special VLAN tag between the MAC addresses - * and the current ethertype field. - */ - if (skb_cow_head(skb, LAN9303_TAG_LEN) < 0) { - dev_dbg(&dev->dev, - "Cannot make room for the special tag. Dropping packet\n"); - return NULL; - } - /* provide 'LAN9303_TAG_LEN' bytes additional space */ skb_push(skb, LAN9303_TAG_LEN);