This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

nfp: inherit the max_mtu from the PF netdev

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: nfp-inherit-the-max_mtu-from-the-pf-netdev.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 10:32:42 CET 2017

From: Dirk van der Merwe dirk.vandermerwe@netronome.com Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:06:41 -0800 Subject: nfp: inherit the max_mtu from the PF netdev

From: Dirk van der Merwe dirk.vandermerwe@netronome.com

[ Upstream commit 743ba5b47f7961fb29f2e06bb694fb4f068ac58f ]

The PF netdev is used for data transfer for reprs, so reprs inherit the maximum MTU settings of the PF netdev.

Fixes: 5de73ee46704 ("nfp: general representor implementation") Signed-off-by: Dirk van der Merwe dirk.vandermerwe@netronome.com Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski jakub.kicinski@netronome.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c @@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ int nfp_repr_init(struct nfp_app *app, s netdev->netdev_ops = &nfp_repr_netdev_ops; netdev->ethtool_ops = &nfp_port_ethtool_ops;

+ netdev->max_mtu = pf_netdev->max_mtu; + SWITCHDEV_SET_OPS(netdev, &nfp_port_switchdev_ops);

if (nfp_app_has_tc(app)) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dirk.vandermerwe@netronome.com are

queue-4.14/nfp-inherit-the-max_mtu-from-the-pf-netdev.patch