This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: dsa: tag_brcm: 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_brcm-let-dsa-core-deal-with-tx-reallocat.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 d48532018497a8df115f2537952b25cb6a8defd1
Author: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Nov 1 21:16:17 2020 +0200
net: dsa: tag_brcm: let DSA core deal with TX reallocation
[ Upstream commit 2f0d030c5ffec6660f79a32b4f522155f75a9d71 ]
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.
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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_brcm.c b/net/dsa/tag_brcm.c
index ad72dff8d524..e934dace3922 100644
--- a/net/dsa/tag_brcm.c
+++ b/net/dsa/tag_brcm.c
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *brcm_tag_xmit_ll(struct sk_buff *skb,
u16 queue = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
u8 *brcm_tag;
- if (skb_cow_head(skb, BRCM_TAG_LEN) < 0)
- return NULL;
-
/* The Ethernet switch we are interfaced with needs packets to be at
* least 64 bytes (including FCS) otherwise they will be discarded when
* they enter the switch port logic. When Broadcom tags are enabled, we
