On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 11:06:24AM +0200, netdev@kapio-technology.com wrote:
On 2022-07-08 10:49, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
Hi Hans,
On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 05:29:27PM +0200, Hans Schultz wrote:
Ignore locked fdb entries coming in on all drivers.
Signed-off-by: Hans Schultz netdev@kapio-technology.com
A good patch should have a reason for the change in the commit message. This has no reason because there is no reason.
Think about it, you've said it yourself in patch 1:
| Only the kernel can set this FDB entry flag, while userspace can read | the flag and remove it by replacing or deleting the FDB entry.
So if user space will never add locked FDB entries to the bridge, then FDB entries with is_locked=true are never transported using SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_DEVICE to drivers, and so, there is no reason at all to pass is_locked to drivers, just for them to ignore something that won't appear.
Correct me if I am wrong, but since the bridge can add locked entries, and the ensuring fdb update will create a SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_DEVICE, those entries should reach the driver. The policy to ignore those in the driver can be seen as either the right thing to do, or not yet implemented.
I remember Ido wrote at a point that the scheme they use is to trap various packets to the CPU and let the bridge add the locked entry, which I then understand is sent to the driver with a SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_DEVICE event.
Well, yes, but if I'm correct, the bridge right now can't create locked FDB entries, so is_locked will always be false in the ADD_TO_DEVICE direction.
When the possibility for it to be true will exist, _all_ switchdev drivers will need to be updated to ignore that (mlxsw, cpss, ocelot, rocker, prestera, etc etc), not just DSA. And you don't need to propagate the is_locked flag to all individual DSA sub-drivers when none care about is_locked in the ADD_TO_DEVICE direction, you can just ignore within DSA until needed otherwise.
You just need this for SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_BRIDGE, so please keep it only in those code paths, and remove it from net/dsa/slave.c as well.
drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_priv.h | 1 + drivers/net/dsa/hirschmann/hellcreek.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/dsa/lantiq_gswip.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz9477.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/dsa/qca8k.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c | 5 +++++ include/net/dsa.h | 1 + net/dsa/switch.c | 4 ++-- 13 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)