[PATCH 4.4 037/342] net/mlx4_en: Avoid changing dev->features directly in run-time

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 01 2016 - 20:24:15 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 925ab1aa9394bbaeac47ee5b65d3fdf0fb8135cf ]

It's forbidden to manually change dev->features in run-time. Currently, this is
done in the driver to make sure that GSO_UDP_TUNNEL is advertized only when
VXLAN tunnel is set. However, since the stack actually does features intersection
with hw_enc_features, we can safely revert to advertizing features early when
registering the netdevice.

Fixes: f4a1edd56120 ('net/mlx4_en: Advertize encapsulation offloads [...]')
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -2381,8 +2381,6 @@ out:
/* set offloads */
priv->dev->hw_enc_features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM |
NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL;
- priv->dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL;
- priv->dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL;
}

static void mlx4_en_del_vxlan_offloads(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -2393,8 +2391,6 @@ static void mlx4_en_del_vxlan_offloads(s
/* unset offloads */
priv->dev->hw_enc_features &= ~(NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM |
NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL);
- priv->dev->hw_features &= ~NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL;
- priv->dev->features &= ~NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL;

ret = mlx4_SET_PORT_VXLAN(priv->mdev->dev, priv->port,
VXLAN_STEER_BY_OUTER_MAC, 0);
@@ -3020,6 +3016,11 @@ int mlx4_en_init_netdev(struct mlx4_en_d
priv->rss_hash_fn = ETH_RSS_HASH_TOP;
}

+ if (mdev->dev->caps.tunnel_offload_mode == MLX4_TUNNEL_OFFLOAD_MODE_VXLAN) {
+ dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL;
+ dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL;
+ }
+
mdev->pndev[port] = dev;
mdev->upper[port] = NULL;