This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
macvlan: filter out unsupported feature flags
to the 4.15-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:
macvlan-filter-out-unsupported-feature-flags.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 18:37:51 CEST 2018
From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 16:17:23 -0800
Subject: macvlan: filter out unsupported feature flags
From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 13fbcc8dc573482dd3f27568257fd7087f8935f4 ]
Adding a macvlan device on top of a lowerdev that supports
the xfrm offloads fails with a new regression:
# ip link add link ens1f0 mv0 type macvlan
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
Tracing down the failure shows that the macvlan device inherits
the NETIF_F_HW_ESP and NETIF_F_HW_ESP_TX_CSUM feature flags
from the lowerdev, but with no dev->xfrmdev_ops API filled
in, it doesn't actually support xfrm. When the request is
made to add the new macvlan device, the XFRM listener for
NETDEV_REGISTER calls xfrm_api_check() which fails the new
registration because dev->xfrmdev_ops is NULL.
The macvlan creation succeeds when we filter out the ESP
feature flags in macvlan_fix_features(), so let's filter them
out like we're already filtering out ~NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL.
When XFRM support is added in the future, we can add the flags
into MACVLAN_FEATURES.
This same problem could crop up in the future with any other
new feature flags, so let's filter out any flags that aren't
defined as supported in macvlan.
Fixes: d77e38e612a0 ("xfrm: Add an IPsec hardware offloading API")
Reported-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ static netdev_features_t macvlan_fix_fea
lowerdev_features &= (features | ~NETIF_F_LRO);
features = netdev_increment_features(lowerdev_features, features, mask);
features |= ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES;
- features &= ~NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
+ features &= (ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES | MACVLAN_FEATURES);
return features;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.15/macvlan-filter-out-unsupported-feature-flags.patch