The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From b2107cdc43d8601f2cadfba990ae844cc1f44e68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 21:20:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: Switchdev representors are not vlan challenged
Before this patch, mlx5 representors advertised the
NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED bit, this could lead to missing features when
using reps with vxlan/bridge and maybe other virtual interfaces,
when such interfaces inherit this bit and block vlan usage in their
topology.
Example:
$ip link add dev bridge type bridge
# add representor interface to the bridge
$ip link set dev pf0hpf master
$ip link add link bridge name vlan10 type vlan id 10 protocol 802.1q
Error: 8021q: VLANs not supported on device.
Reps are perfectly capable of handling vlan traffic, although they don't
implement vlan_{add,kill}_vid ndos, hence, remove
NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED advertisement.
Fixes: cb67b832921c ("net/mlx5e: Introduce SRIOV VF representors")
Reported-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
index 3dd1101cc693..0439203fc7d9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
@@ -643,7 +643,6 @@ static void mlx5e_build_rep_netdev(struct net_device *netdev,
netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
netdev->features |= netdev->hw_features;
- netdev->features |= NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED;
netdev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
}
