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Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 17:07:25 +0200
From:   Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
To:     davem@davemloft.net, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
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        Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: Drop check for vlan etype and vlan
 tci when parsing flow_rule
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On Wed, 29 May 2019 16:10:44 +0200
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> wrote:

>When parsing an ethtool flow spec to build a flow_rule, the code checks
>if both the vlan etype and the vlan tci are specified by the user to add
>a FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_VLAN match.
>
>However, when the user only specified a vlan etype or a vlan tci, this
>check silently ignores these parameters.
>
>For example, the following rule :
>
>ethtool -N eth0 flow-type udp4 vlan 0x0010 action -1 loc 0
>
>will result in no error being issued, but the equivalent rule will be
>created and passed to the NIC driver :
>
>ethtool -N eth0 flow-type udp4 action -1 loc 0
>
>In the end, neither the NIC driver using the rule nor the end user have
>a way to know that these keys were dropped along the way, or that
>incorrect parameters were entered.
>
>This kind of check should be left to either the driver, or the ethtool
>flow spec layer.
>
>This commit makes so that ethtool parameters are forwarded as-is to the
>NIC driver.
>
>Since none of the users of ethtool_rx_flow_rule_create are using the
>VLAN dissector, I don't think this qualifies as a regression.
>
>Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>

I should have targeted this to -net, and provided a Fixes tag.
Let me resend that to the proper tree.

Sorry about the noise,

Maxime