net/mlx5e: Switchdev representors are not vlan challenged
authorSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Tue, 5 Oct 2021 04:20:25 +0000 (21:20 -0700)
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Tue, 12 Oct 2021 20:51:56 +0000 (13:51 -0700)
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@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@nvidia.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c

index 3dd1101..0439203 100644 (file)
@@ -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;
 }