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authorJack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>2013-11-03 10:03:21 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-11-04 16:19:07 -0500
commit2c957ff27dbbabec4ec406420fab9677d59f7161 (patch)
treeda99f8eff998ec40f3015aba40992a4a9bd73322 /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h
parent4874080dee8a3fd4ebc3aefd68503fa0e130bd12 (diff)
net/mlx4_core: Don't fail reg/unreg vlan for older guests
In upstream kernels under SRIOV, the vlan register/unregister calls were NOPs (doing nothing and returning OK). We detect these old calls from guests (via the comm channel), since previously the port number in mlx4_register_vlan was passed (improperly) in the out_param. This has been corrected so that the port number is now passed in bits 8..15 of the in_modifier field. For old calls, these bits will be zero, so if the passed port number is zero, we can still look at the out_param field to see if it contains a valid port number. If yes, the VM is running an old driver. Since for old drivers, the register/unregister_vlan wrappers were NOPs, we continue this policy -- the reason being that upstream had an additional bug in eth driver running on guests (where procedure mlx4_en_vlan_rx_kill_vid() had the following code: if (!mlx4_find_cached_vlan(mdev->dev, priv->port, vid, &idx)) mlx4_unregister_vlan(mdev->dev, priv->port, idx); else en_err(priv, "could not find vid %d in cache\n", vid); On a VM, mlx4_find_cached_vlan() will always fail, since the vlan cache is located on the Hypervisor; on guests it is empty. Therefore, if we allow upstream guests to register vlans, we will have vlan leakage since the unregister will never be performed. Leaving vlan reg/unreg for old guest drivers as a NOP is not a feature regression, since in upstream the register/unregister vlan wrapper is a NOP. Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h
index f2ad4f61f58c..97941269bc14 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ struct mlx4_slave_state {
u8 last_cmd;
u8 init_port_mask;
bool active;
+ bool old_vlan_api;
u8 function;
dma_addr_t vhcr_dma;
u16 mtu[MLX4_MAX_PORTS + 1];