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[v2,net,5/6] net: enetc: don't disable VLAN filtering in IFF_PROMISC mode

Message ID 20210225121835.3864036-6-olteanv@gmail.com
State Superseded
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Series Fixes for NXP ENETC driver | expand

Commit Message

Vladimir Oltean Feb. 25, 2021, 12:18 p.m. UTC 
From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>

Quoting from the blamed commit:

    In promiscuous mode, it is more intuitive that all traffic is received,
    including VLAN tagged traffic. It appears that it is necessary to set
    the flag in PSIPVMR for that to be the case, so VLAN promiscuous mode is
    also temporarily enabled. On exit from promiscuous mode, the setting
    made by ethtool is restored.

Intuitive or not, there isn't any definition issued by a standards body
which says that promiscuity has anything to do with VLAN filtering - it
only has to do with accepting packets regardless of destination MAC address.

In fact people are already trying to use this misunderstanding/bug of
the enetc driver as a justification to transform promiscuity into
something it never was about: accepting every packet (maybe that would
be the "rx-all" netdev feature?):
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201110153958.ci5ekor3o2ekg3ky@ipetronik.com/

So we should avoid that and delete the bogus logic in enetc.

Fixes: 7070eea5e95a ("enetc: permit configuration of rx-vlan-filter with ethtool")
Cc: Markus Blöchl <Markus.Bloechl@ipetronik.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
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Changes in v2:
None.

 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c
index 62ba4bf56f0d..49681a0566ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c
@@ -190,7 +190,6 @@  static void enetc_pf_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *ndev)
 {
 	struct enetc_ndev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
 	struct enetc_pf *pf = enetc_si_priv(priv->si);
-	char vlan_promisc_simap = pf->vlan_promisc_simap;
 	struct enetc_hw *hw = &priv->si->hw;
 	bool uprom = false, mprom = false;
 	struct enetc_mac_filter *filter;
@@ -203,16 +202,12 @@  static void enetc_pf_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *ndev)
 		psipmr = ENETC_PSIPMR_SET_UP(0) | ENETC_PSIPMR_SET_MP(0);
 		uprom = true;
 		mprom = true;
-		/* Enable VLAN promiscuous mode for SI0 (PF) */
-		vlan_promisc_simap |= BIT(0);
 	} else if (ndev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI) {
 		/* enable multi cast promisc mode for SI0 (PF) */
 		psipmr = ENETC_PSIPMR_SET_MP(0);
 		mprom = true;
 	}
 
-	enetc_set_vlan_promisc(&pf->si->hw, vlan_promisc_simap);
-
 	/* first 2 filter entries belong to PF */
 	if (!uprom) {
 		/* Update unicast filters */