vlan: Warn the user if lowerdev has bad vlan features.

Some drivers incorrectly assign vlan acceleration features to vlan_features thus causing issues for Q-in-Q vlan configurations. Warn the user of such cases. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
lhanjian · Mar 28, 2014 · 2adb956 · 2adb956
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diff --git a/include/linux/netdev_features.h b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
@@ -163,4 +163,11 @@ enum {
 /* changeable features with no special hardware requirements */
 #define NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES	(NETIF_F_GSO | NETIF_F_GRO)
 
+#define NETIF_F_VLAN_FEATURES	(NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER | \
+				 NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX | \
+				 NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX | \
+				 NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_FILTER | \
+				 NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX | \
+				 NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_TX)
+
 #endif	/* _LINUX_NETDEV_FEATURES_H */
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
@@ -578,6 +578,9 @@ static int vlan_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	dev->features |= real_dev->vlan_features | NETIF_F_LLTX;
 	dev->gso_max_size = real_dev->gso_max_size;
+	if (dev->features & NETIF_F_VLAN_FEATURES)
+		netdev_warn(real_dev, "VLAN features are set incorrectly.  Q-in-Q configurations may not work correctly.\n");
+
 
 	/* ipv6 shared card related stuff */
 	dev->dev_id = real_dev->dev_id;