[PATCH net-next v2 2/5] net: dsa: add out-of-band tagging protocol

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:11:13AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> unless we somehow manage to put it in the linear portion of
> the SKB to avoid using any control buffer or extension.

But how? Essentially the DSA master has to look at a packet and
determine whether it came from DSA based on something which non-DSA
code could not have done. In fact, I'm looking at the calls to
skb_reset_mac_{header,len} from net/core/skbuff.c, specifically at VLAN
and MPLS, and I believe (but haven't tested) that pushing such headers
would also alter skb->mac_len to some value != ETH_HLEN. So simply
having the DSA master check whether DSA was there by checking whether
skb->mac_len is ETH_HLEN + DSA tag len could easily confuse DSA with
some other protocol of same header size.