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> Wrap VLAN hardware acceleration calls into separate functions.  This way
> other code can re-use it.

Maybe instead of jumping aroung bugs that are easily fixed just don't
let them in? See untested patch below. Affected drivers can be either
fixed or have NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER removed from advertised features.

--cut-here--

net: disallow drivers with buggy VLAN accel to register_netdevice()

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>
---
 net/8021q/vlan.c      |    7 -------
 net/8021q/vlan_core.c |    6 ++----
 net/core/dev.c        |    9 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index babfde9..addc578 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -117,19 +117,12 @@ void unregister_vlan_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct 
list_head *head)
 int vlan_check_real_dev(struct net_device *real_dev, u16 vlan_id)
 {
        const char *name = real_dev->name;
-       const struct net_device_ops *ops = real_dev->netdev_ops;
 
        if (real_dev->features & NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED) {
                pr_info("VLANs not supported on %s\n", name);
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
        }
 
-       if ((real_dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER) &&
-           (!ops->ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid || !ops->ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid)) {
-               pr_info("Device %s has buggy VLAN hw accel\n", name);
-               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-       }
-
        if (vlan_find_dev(real_dev, vlan_id) != NULL)
                return -EEXIST;
 
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_core.c b/net/8021q/vlan_core.c
index 380440b..71b64fd 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_core.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_core.c
@@ -224,8 +224,7 @@ static int __vlan_vid_add(struct vlan_info *vlan_info, 
unsigned short vid,
        if (!vid_info)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-       if ((dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER) &&
-           ops->ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid) {
+       if (dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER) {
                err =  ops->ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid(dev, vid);
                if (err) {
                        kfree(vid_info);
@@ -282,8 +281,7 @@ static void __vlan_vid_del(struct vlan_info *vlan_info,
        unsigned short vid = vid_info->vid;
        int err;
 
-       if ((dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER) &&
-            ops->ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid) {
+       if (dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER) {
                err = ops->ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid(dev, vid);
                if (err) {
                        pr_warn("failed to kill vid %d for device %s\n",
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index b6d2b32..f87cdc2 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6211,6 +6211,15 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
                }
        }
 
+       if (((dev->hw_features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER) ||
+             (dev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER)) &&
+           (!dev->netdev_ops->ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid ||
+            !dev->netdev_ops->ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid)) {
+               netdev_WARN(dev, "Buggy VLAN acceleration in driver!\n");
+               ret = -EINVAL;
+               goto err_uninit;
+       }
+
        ret = -EBUSY;
        if (!dev->ifindex)
                dev->ifindex = dev_new_index(net);
-- 
1.7.10.4


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