Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] net: stmmac: L3/L4 filter bug fixes

From: Nazle Asmade, Muhammad Nazim Amirul

Date: Tue Jun 16 2026 - 02:58:19 EST


On 16/6/2026 2:06 pm, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> Hi Nazim,
>
> On 6/16/26 06:26, muhammad.nazim.amirul.nazle.asmade@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Nazim Amirul <muhammad.nazim.amirul.nazle.asmade@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This series fixes three bugs in the stmmac L3/L4 TC flower filter
>> implementation for the XGMAC2 core. All three patches target net.
>>
>> The L3/L4 filter match count statistics patch (originally patch 4/4)
>> has been split out and will be sent separately against net-next per
>> Andrew Lunn's review of v1.
>>
>> Patch 1 fixes a register corruption bug in the L4 filter port configuration.
>> The XGMAC_L4_ADDR register holds both source and destination port match
>> values in a single register. The original code overwrites the entire register
>> when setting either field, silently erasing the other. This is fixed by
>> using a read-modify-write sequence.
>>
>> Patch 2 fixes the basic flow match parser to properly reject unsupported
>> offload requests with -EOPNOTSUPP instead of silently accepting them.
>> Unsupported cases include partial protocol masks, non-IPv4 network proto,
>> and non-TCP/UDP transport proto. Extack messages are now included so users
>> know exactly which part of the match is unsupported. The -EOPNOTSUPP is
>> also now returned directly instead of using break, which was silently
>> discarding the error on FLOW_CLS_REPLACE operations.
>>
>> Patch 3 fixes a stale action bug on filter deletion. When a filter entry
>> with a drop action is deleted, the action field was not reset, causing
>> it to persist and potentially affect subsequent filter configurations.
>>
>> All three patches fix the original L3/L4 filter implementation introduced in
>> 425eabddaf0f ("net: stmmac: Implement L3/L4 Filters using TC Flower").
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> - Patch 2: add extack messages to each -EOPNOTSUPP return (Jakub Kicinski)
>> - Patch 2: return -EOPNOTSUPP directly instead of break to avoid silently
>> reporting success on unsupported FLOW_CLS_REPLACE (Sashiko review)
>
> Please take a look at this page prior to reposting :
>
> https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/net-next.html
>
> There's also an announcement made on the netdev@ list when net-next
> opens/closes.
>
> You can't submit new series that target net-next during the merge window,
> this revision will have to wait 2 weeks.
>
> Maxime
>
Ah I see, Thanks Maxime :)