[PATCH net v2 4/6] net: stmmac: Disable double VLAN handling on dwmac4

From: Ovidiu Panait

Date: Fri Aug 21 2026 - 13:12:31 EST


Currently, hardware VLAN stripping is broken for 802.1ad tags. vlan_rx_hw()
hardcodes ETH_P_8021Q when putting the hardware tag into the skb, rather
than using the actual protocol from the packet. Because of this, packets
that contain a 802.1ad outer tag are incorrectly passed up the stack as
having an 802.1Q tag. This causes QinQ ping between two hosts to fail.

vlan_rx_hw() is shared by dwxgmac2 and dwmac4: on dwxgmac2 the tag type
is available in the RDES3 write-back descriptor (the ET_LT field), so the
outer tag type can be determined based on that info. However, dwmac4
doesn't seem to provide the tag type. The Length/Type field in RDES3 only
indicates whether the packet is single or double-tagged, not which tag
type was stripped.

Since dwmac4 cannot report the stripped tag type, it cannot support
hardware double VLAN stripping correctly. Disable it by dropping
update_dvlan_state from dwmac_vlan_ops. With this, 802.1ad tags are
left in place and handled by the software VLAN path.

Also, restrict the NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX and NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_FILTER
advertisement to dwxgmac2.

Fixes: 750011e239a5 ("net: stmmac: Add support for HW-accelerated VLAN stripping")
Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait.rb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2 changes:
- Advertised NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX and NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_FILTER only
for XGMAC (reported by Sashiko).

drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 6 ++++--
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_vlan.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index 802f9e67a4bc..7cfd14007d60 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -7958,7 +7958,8 @@ static int __stmmac_dvr_probe(struct device *device,
#ifdef STMMAC_VLAN_TAG_USED
/* Both mac100 and gmac support receive VLAN tag detection */
ndev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX;
- if (priv->dma_cap.dvlan)
+ if (priv->dma_cap.dvlan &&
+ priv->plat->core_type == DWMAC_CORE_XGMAC)
ndev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX;

if (dwmac_is_xmac(priv->plat->core_type)) {
@@ -7967,7 +7968,8 @@ static int __stmmac_dvr_probe(struct device *device,
}
if (priv->dma_cap.vlhash) {
ndev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER;
- if (priv->dma_cap.dvlan)
+ if (priv->dma_cap.dvlan &&
+ priv->plat->core_type == DWMAC_CORE_XGMAC)
ndev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_FILTER;
}
if (priv->dma_cap.vlins)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_vlan.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_vlan.c
index 1e47ae62093e..9b5b3f11f699 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_vlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_vlan.c
@@ -273,7 +273,6 @@ static void dwxgmac2_update_vlan_hash(struct mac_device_info *hw, u32 hash)

const struct stmmac_vlan_ops dwmac_vlan_ops = {
.update_vlan_hash = vlan_update_hash,
- .update_dvlan_state = vlan_update_dvlan_state,
.enable_vlan = vlan_enable,
.add_hw_vlan_rx_fltr = vlan_add_hw_rx_fltr,
.del_hw_vlan_rx_fltr = vlan_del_hw_rx_fltr,
--
2.34.1