This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: introduce a netdev feature for UDP GRO forwarding
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-introduce-a-netdev-feature-for-udp-gro-forwardin.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 f05ec627e4c3e2bf47e787330753ac474690dacb
Author: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@xxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 22 18:19:48 2021 +0000
net: introduce a netdev feature for UDP GRO forwarding
[ Upstream commit 6f1c0ea133a6e4a193a7b285efe209664caeea43 ]
Introduce a new netdev feature, NETIF_F_GRO_UDP_FWD, to allow user
to turn UDP GRO on and off for forwarding.
Defaults to off to not change current datapath.
Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@xxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 9cfb5e7f0ded ("net: hsr: fix hsr_init_sk() vs network/transport headers.")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/netdev_features.h b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
index e2a92697a6638..7b7a7e4d81254 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdev_features.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ enum {
NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST_BIT, /* Fraglist GRO */
NETIF_F_HW_MACSEC_BIT, /* Offload MACsec operations */
+ NETIF_F_GRO_UDP_FWD_BIT, /* Allow UDP GRO for forwarding */
/*
* Add your fresh new feature above and remember to update
@@ -157,6 +158,7 @@ enum {
#define NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST __NETIF_F(GRO_FRAGLIST)
#define NETIF_F_GSO_FRAGLIST __NETIF_F(GSO_FRAGLIST)
#define NETIF_F_HW_MACSEC __NETIF_F(HW_MACSEC)
+#define NETIF_F_GRO_UDP_FWD __NETIF_F(GRO_UDP_FWD)
/* Finds the next feature with the highest number of the range of start-1 till 0.
*/
@@ -234,7 +236,7 @@ static inline int find_next_netdev_feature(u64 feature, unsigned long start)
#define NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES (NETIF_F_GSO | NETIF_F_GRO)
/* Changeable features with no special hardware requirements that defaults to off. */
-#define NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES_OFF NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST
+#define NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES_OFF (NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST | NETIF_F_GRO_UDP_FWD)
#define NETIF_F_VLAN_FEATURES (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER | \
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX | \
diff --git a/net/ethtool/common.c b/net/ethtool/common.c
index 24036e3055a13..181220101a6e7 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/common.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/common.c
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ const char netdev_features_strings[NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
[NETIF_F_HW_TLS_RX_BIT] = "tls-hw-rx-offload",
[NETIF_F_GRO_FRAGLIST_BIT] = "rx-gro-list",
[NETIF_F_HW_MACSEC_BIT] = "macsec-hw-offload",
+ [NETIF_F_GRO_UDP_FWD_BIT] = "rx-udp-gro-forwarding",
};
const char
