Re: [PATCH v2] net: dsa: tag_brcm: legacy: fix daisy-chained switches

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Mar 20 2023 - 21:58:16 EST


On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 10:55:40 +0100 Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
> When BCM63xx internal switches are connected to switches with a 4-byte
> Broadcom tag, it does not identify the packet as VLAN tagged, so it adds one
> based on its PVID (which is likely 0).
> Right now, the packet is received by the BCM63xx internal switch and the 6-byte
> tag is properly processed. The next step would to decode the corresponding
> 4-byte tag. However, the internal switch adds an invalid VLAN tag after the
> 6-byte tag and the 4-byte tag handling fails.
> In order to fix this we need to remove the invalid VLAN tag after the 6-byte
> tag before passing it to the 4-byte tag decoding.

Is it good to go in, Florian?