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