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<title>net: bridge: switchdev: consistent function naming</title>
<updated>2021-10-29T03:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-27T16:21:19+00:00</published>
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Rename all recently imported functions in br_switchdev.c to start with a
br_switchdev_* prefix.

br_fdb_replay_one() -&gt; br_switchdev_fdb_replay_one()
br_fdb_replay() -&gt; br_switchdev_fdb_replay()
br_vlan_replay_one() -&gt; br_switchdev_vlan_replay_one()
br_vlan_replay() -&gt; br_switchdev_vlan_replay()
struct br_mdb_complete_info -&gt; struct br_switchdev_mdb_complete_info
br_mdb_complete() -&gt; br_switchdev_mdb_complete()
br_mdb_switchdev_host_port() -&gt; br_switchdev_host_mdb_one()
br_mdb_switchdev_host() -&gt; br_switchdev_host_mdb()
br_mdb_replay_one() -&gt; br_switchdev_mdb_replay_one()
br_mdb_replay() -&gt; br_switchdev_mdb_replay()
br_mdb_queue_one() -&gt; br_switchdev_mdb_queue_one()

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Rename all recently imported functions in br_switchdev.c to start with a
br_switchdev_* prefix.

br_fdb_replay_one() -&gt; br_switchdev_fdb_replay_one()
br_fdb_replay() -&gt; br_switchdev_fdb_replay()
br_vlan_replay_one() -&gt; br_switchdev_vlan_replay_one()
br_vlan_replay() -&gt; br_switchdev_vlan_replay()
struct br_mdb_complete_info -&gt; struct br_switchdev_mdb_complete_info
br_mdb_complete() -&gt; br_switchdev_mdb_complete()
br_mdb_switchdev_host_port() -&gt; br_switchdev_host_mdb_one()
br_mdb_switchdev_host() -&gt; br_switchdev_host_mdb()
br_mdb_replay_one() -&gt; br_switchdev_mdb_replay_one()
br_mdb_replay() -&gt; br_switchdev_mdb_replay()
br_mdb_queue_one() -&gt; br_switchdev_mdb_queue_one()

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: bridge: mdb: move all switchdev logic to br_switchdev.c</title>
<updated>2021-10-29T03:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-27T16:21:18+00:00</published>
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The following functions:

br_mdb_complete
br_switchdev_mdb_populate
br_mdb_replay_one
br_mdb_queue_one
br_mdb_replay
br_mdb_switchdev_host_port
br_mdb_switchdev_host
br_switchdev_mdb_notify

are only accessible from code paths where CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV is
enabled. So move them to br_switchdev.c, in order for that code to be
compiled out if that config option is disabled.

Note that br_switchdev.c gets build regardless of whether
CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING is enabled or not, whereas br_mdb.c only got
built when CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING was enabled. So to preserve
correct compilation with CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING being disabled, we
must now place an #ifdef around these functions in br_switchdev.c.
The offending bridge data structures that need this are
br-&gt;multicast_lock and br-&gt;mdb_list, these are also compiled out of
struct net_bridge when CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING is turned off.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The following functions:

br_mdb_complete
br_switchdev_mdb_populate
br_mdb_replay_one
br_mdb_queue_one
br_mdb_replay
br_mdb_switchdev_host_port
br_mdb_switchdev_host
br_switchdev_mdb_notify

are only accessible from code paths where CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV is
enabled. So move them to br_switchdev.c, in order for that code to be
compiled out if that config option is disabled.

Note that br_switchdev.c gets build regardless of whether
CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING is enabled or not, whereas br_mdb.c only got
built when CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING was enabled. So to preserve
correct compilation with CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING being disabled, we
must now place an #ifdef around these functions in br_switchdev.c.
The offending bridge data structures that need this are
br-&gt;multicast_lock and br-&gt;mdb_list, these are also compiled out of
struct net_bridge when CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING is turned off.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: bridge: move br_vlan_replay to br_switchdev.c</title>
<updated>2021-10-29T03:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-27T16:21:16+00:00</published>
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br_vlan_replay() is relevant only if CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV is enabled, so
move it to br_switchdev.c.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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br_vlan_replay() is relevant only if CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV is enabled, so
move it to br_switchdev.c.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: bridge: create a common function for populating switchdev FDB entries</title>
<updated>2021-10-27T13:54:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T14:27:42+00:00</published>
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There are two places where a switchdev FDB entry is constructed, one is
br_switchdev_fdb_notify() and the other is br_fdb_replay(). One uses a
struct initializer, and the other declares the structure as
uninitialized and populates the elements one by one.

One problem when introducing new members of struct
switchdev_notifier_fdb_info is that there is a risk for one of these
functions to run with an uninitialized value.

So centralize the logic of populating such structure into a dedicated
function. Being the primary location where these structures are created,
using an uninitialized variable and populating the members one by one
should be fine, since this one function is supposed to assign values to
all its members.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There are two places where a switchdev FDB entry is constructed, one is
br_switchdev_fdb_notify() and the other is br_fdb_replay(). One uses a
struct initializer, and the other declares the structure as
uninitialized and populates the elements one by one.

One problem when introducing new members of struct
switchdev_notifier_fdb_info is that there is a risk for one of these
functions to run with an uninitialized value.

So centralize the logic of populating such structure into a dedicated
function. Being the primary location where these structures are created,
using an uninitialized variable and populating the members one by one
should be fine, since this one function is supposed to assign values to
all its members.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: bridge: move br_fdb_replay inside br_switchdev.c</title>
<updated>2021-10-27T13:54:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T14:27:41+00:00</published>
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br_fdb_replay is only called from switchdev code paths, so it makes
sense to be disabled if switchdev is not enabled in the first place.

As opposed to br_mdb_replay and br_vlan_replay which might be turned off
depending on bridge support for multicast and VLANs, FDB support is
always on. So moving br_mdb_replay and br_vlan_replay inside
br_switchdev.c would mean adding some #ifdef's in br_switchdev.c, so we
keep those where they are.

The reason for the movement is that in future changes there will be some
code reuse between br_switchdev_fdb_notify and br_fdb_replay.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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br_fdb_replay is only called from switchdev code paths, so it makes
sense to be disabled if switchdev is not enabled in the first place.

As opposed to br_mdb_replay and br_vlan_replay which might be turned off
depending on bridge support for multicast and VLANs, FDB support is
always on. So moving br_mdb_replay and br_vlan_replay inside
br_switchdev.c would mean adding some #ifdef's in br_switchdev.c, so we
keep those where they are.

The reason for the movement is that in future changes there will be some
code reuse between br_switchdev_fdb_notify and br_fdb_replay.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: make switchdev_bridge_port_{,unoffload} loosely coupled with the bridge</title>
<updated>2021-08-04T11:35:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-03T20:34:08+00:00</published>
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With the introduction of explicit offloading API in switchdev in commit
2f5dc00f7a3e ("net: bridge: switchdev: let drivers inform which bridge
ports are offloaded"), we started having Ethernet switch drivers calling
directly into a function exported by net/bridge/br_switchdev.c, which is
a function exported by the bridge driver.

This means that drivers that did not have an explicit dependency on the
bridge before, like cpsw and am65-cpsw, now do - otherwise it is not
possible to call a symbol exported by a driver that can be built as
module unless you are a module too.

There was an attempt to solve the dependency issue in the form of commit
b0e81817629a ("net: build all switchdev drivers as modules when the
bridge is a module"). Grygorii Strashko, however, says about it:

| In my opinion, the problem is a bit bigger here than just fixing the
| build :(
|
| In case, of ^cpsw the switchdev mode is kinda optional and in many
| cases (especially for testing purposes, NFS) the multi-mac mode is
| still preferable mode.
|
| There were no such tight dependency between switchdev drivers and
| bridge core before and switchdev serviced as independent, notification
| based layer between them, so ^cpsw still can be "Y" and bridge can be
| "M". Now for mostly every kernel build configuration the CONFIG_BRIDGE
| will need to be set as "Y", or we will have to update drivers to
| support build with BRIDGE=n and maintain separate builds for
| networking vs non-networking testing.  But is this enough?  Wouldn't
| it cause 'chain reaction' required to add more and more "Y" options
| (like CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q)?
|
| PS. Just to be sure we on the same page - ARM builds will be forced
| (with this patch) to have CONFIG_TI_CPSW_SWITCHDEV=m and so all our
| automation testing will just fail with omap2plus_defconfig.

In the light of this, it would be desirable for some configurations to
avoid dependencies between switchdev drivers and the bridge, and have
the switchdev mode as completely optional within the driver.

Arnd Bergmann also tried to write a patch which better expressed the
build time dependency for Ethernet switch drivers where the switchdev
support is optional, like cpsw/am65-cpsw, and this made the drivers
follow the bridge (compile as module if the bridge is a module) only if
the optional switchdev support in the driver was enabled in the first
place:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210802144813.1152762-1-arnd@kernel.org/

but this still did not solve the fact that cpsw and am65-cpsw now must
be built as modules when the bridge is a module - it just expressed
correctly that optional dependency. But the new behavior is an apparent
regression from Grygorii's perspective.

So to support the use case where the Ethernet driver is built-in,
NET_SWITCHDEV (a bool option) is enabled, and the bridge is a module, we
need a framework that can handle the possible absence of the bridge from
the running system, i.e. runtime bloatware as opposed to build-time
bloatware.

Luckily we already have this framework, since switchdev has been using
it extensively. Events from the bridge side are transmitted to the
driver side using notifier chains - this was originally done so that
unrelated drivers could snoop for events emitted by the bridge towards
ports that are implemented by other drivers (think of a switch driver
with LAG offload that listens for switchdev events on a bonding/team
interface that it offloads).

There are also events which are transmitted from the driver side to the
bridge side, which again are modeled using notifiers.
SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_BRIDGE is an example of this, and deals with
notifying the bridge that a MAC address has been dynamically learned.
So there is a precedent we can use for modeling the new framework.

The difference compared to SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_BRIDGE is that the work
that the bridge needs to do when a port becomes offloaded is blocking in
its nature: replay VLANs, MDBs etc. The calling context is indeed
blocking (we are under rtnl_mutex), but the existing switchdev
notification chain that the bridge is subscribed to is only the atomic
one. So we need to subscribe the bridge to the blocking switchdev
notification chain too.

This patch:
- keeps the driver-side perception of the switchdev_bridge_port_{,un}offload
  unchanged
- moves the implementation of switchdev_bridge_port_{,un}offload from
  the bridge module into the switchdev module.
- makes everybody that is subscribed to the switchdev blocking notifier
  chain "hear" offload &amp; unoffload events
- makes the bridge driver subscribe and handle those events
- moves the bridge driver's handling of those events into 2 new
  functions called br_switchdev_port_{,un}offload. These functions
  contain in fact the core of the logic that was previously in
  switchdev_bridge_port_{,un}offload, just that now we go through an
  extra indirection layer to reach them.

Unlike all the other switchdev notification structures, the structure
used to carry the bridge port information, struct
switchdev_notifier_brport_info, does not contain a "bool handled".
This is because in the current usage pattern, we always know that a
switchdev bridge port offloading event will be handled by the bridge,
because the switchdev_bridge_port_offload() call was initiated by a
NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER event in the first place, where info-&gt;upper_dev is a
bridge. So if the bridge wasn't loaded, then the CHANGEUPPER event
couldn't have happened.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Grygorii Strashko &lt;grygorii.strashko@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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With the introduction of explicit offloading API in switchdev in commit
2f5dc00f7a3e ("net: bridge: switchdev: let drivers inform which bridge
ports are offloaded"), we started having Ethernet switch drivers calling
directly into a function exported by net/bridge/br_switchdev.c, which is
a function exported by the bridge driver.

This means that drivers that did not have an explicit dependency on the
bridge before, like cpsw and am65-cpsw, now do - otherwise it is not
possible to call a symbol exported by a driver that can be built as
module unless you are a module too.

There was an attempt to solve the dependency issue in the form of commit
b0e81817629a ("net: build all switchdev drivers as modules when the
bridge is a module"). Grygorii Strashko, however, says about it:

| In my opinion, the problem is a bit bigger here than just fixing the
| build :(
|
| In case, of ^cpsw the switchdev mode is kinda optional and in many
| cases (especially for testing purposes, NFS) the multi-mac mode is
| still preferable mode.
|
| There were no such tight dependency between switchdev drivers and
| bridge core before and switchdev serviced as independent, notification
| based layer between them, so ^cpsw still can be "Y" and bridge can be
| "M". Now for mostly every kernel build configuration the CONFIG_BRIDGE
| will need to be set as "Y", or we will have to update drivers to
| support build with BRIDGE=n and maintain separate builds for
| networking vs non-networking testing.  But is this enough?  Wouldn't
| it cause 'chain reaction' required to add more and more "Y" options
| (like CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q)?
|
| PS. Just to be sure we on the same page - ARM builds will be forced
| (with this patch) to have CONFIG_TI_CPSW_SWITCHDEV=m and so all our
| automation testing will just fail with omap2plus_defconfig.

In the light of this, it would be desirable for some configurations to
avoid dependencies between switchdev drivers and the bridge, and have
the switchdev mode as completely optional within the driver.

Arnd Bergmann also tried to write a patch which better expressed the
build time dependency for Ethernet switch drivers where the switchdev
support is optional, like cpsw/am65-cpsw, and this made the drivers
follow the bridge (compile as module if the bridge is a module) only if
the optional switchdev support in the driver was enabled in the first
place:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210802144813.1152762-1-arnd@kernel.org/

but this still did not solve the fact that cpsw and am65-cpsw now must
be built as modules when the bridge is a module - it just expressed
correctly that optional dependency. But the new behavior is an apparent
regression from Grygorii's perspective.

So to support the use case where the Ethernet driver is built-in,
NET_SWITCHDEV (a bool option) is enabled, and the bridge is a module, we
need a framework that can handle the possible absence of the bridge from
the running system, i.e. runtime bloatware as opposed to build-time
bloatware.

Luckily we already have this framework, since switchdev has been using
it extensively. Events from the bridge side are transmitted to the
driver side using notifier chains - this was originally done so that
unrelated drivers could snoop for events emitted by the bridge towards
ports that are implemented by other drivers (think of a switch driver
with LAG offload that listens for switchdev events on a bonding/team
interface that it offloads).

There are also events which are transmitted from the driver side to the
bridge side, which again are modeled using notifiers.
SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_BRIDGE is an example of this, and deals with
notifying the bridge that a MAC address has been dynamically learned.
So there is a precedent we can use for modeling the new framework.

The difference compared to SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_BRIDGE is that the work
that the bridge needs to do when a port becomes offloaded is blocking in
its nature: replay VLANs, MDBs etc. The calling context is indeed
blocking (we are under rtnl_mutex), but the existing switchdev
notification chain that the bridge is subscribed to is only the atomic
one. So we need to subscribe the bridge to the blocking switchdev
notification chain too.

This patch:
- keeps the driver-side perception of the switchdev_bridge_port_{,un}offload
  unchanged
- moves the implementation of switchdev_bridge_port_{,un}offload from
  the bridge module into the switchdev module.
- makes everybody that is subscribed to the switchdev blocking notifier
  chain "hear" offload &amp; unoffload events
- makes the bridge driver subscribe and handle those events
- moves the bridge driver's handling of those events into 2 new
  functions called br_switchdev_port_{,un}offload. These functions
  contain in fact the core of the logic that was previously in
  switchdev_bridge_port_{,un}offload, just that now we go through an
  extra indirection layer to reach them.

Unlike all the other switchdev notification structures, the structure
used to carry the bridge port information, struct
switchdev_notifier_brport_info, does not contain a "bool handled".
This is because in the current usage pattern, we always know that a
switchdev bridge port offloading event will be handled by the bridge,
because the switchdev_bridge_port_offload() call was initiated by a
NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER event in the first place, where info-&gt;upper_dev is a
bridge. So if the bridge wasn't loaded, then the CHANGEUPPER event
couldn't have happened.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Grygorii Strashko &lt;grygorii.strashko@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: bridge: switchdev: fix incorrect use of FDB flags when picking the dst device</title>
<updated>2021-08-03T21:29:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-02T11:36:33+00:00</published>
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Nikolay points out that it is incorrect to assume that it is impossible
to have an fdb entry with fdb-&gt;dst == NULL and the BR_FDB_LOCAL bit in
fdb-&gt;flags not set. This is because there are reader-side places that
test_bit(BR_FDB_LOCAL, &amp;fdb-&gt;flags) without the br-&gt;hash_lock, and if
the updating of the FDB entry happens on another CPU, there are no
memory barriers at writer or reader side which would ensure that the
reader sees the updates to both fdb-&gt;flags and fdb-&gt;dst in the same
order, i.e. the reader will not see an inconsistent FDB entry.

So we must be prepared to deal with FDB entries where fdb-&gt;dst and
fdb-&gt;flags are in a potentially inconsistent state, and that means that
fdb-&gt;dst == NULL should remain a condition to pick the net_device that
we report to switchdev as being the bridge device, which is what the
code did prior to the blamed patch.

Fixes: 52e4bec15546 ("net: bridge: switchdev: treat local FDBs the same as entries towards the bridge")
Suggested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802113633.189831-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Nikolay points out that it is incorrect to assume that it is impossible
to have an fdb entry with fdb-&gt;dst == NULL and the BR_FDB_LOCAL bit in
fdb-&gt;flags not set. This is because there are reader-side places that
test_bit(BR_FDB_LOCAL, &amp;fdb-&gt;flags) without the br-&gt;hash_lock, and if
the updating of the FDB entry happens on another CPU, there are no
memory barriers at writer or reader side which would ensure that the
reader sees the updates to both fdb-&gt;flags and fdb-&gt;dst in the same
order, i.e. the reader will not see an inconsistent FDB entry.

So we must be prepared to deal with FDB entries where fdb-&gt;dst and
fdb-&gt;flags are in a potentially inconsistent state, and that means that
fdb-&gt;dst == NULL should remain a condition to pick the net_device that
we report to switchdev as being the bridge device, which is what the
code did prior to the blamed patch.

Fixes: 52e4bec15546 ("net: bridge: switchdev: treat local FDBs the same as entries towards the bridge")
Suggested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802113633.189831-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: bridge: switchdev: treat local FDBs the same as entries towards the bridge</title>
<updated>2021-07-28T19:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-28T18:27:48+00:00</published>
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Currently the following script:

1. ip link add br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 &amp;&amp; ip link set br0 up
2. ip link set swp2 up &amp;&amp; ip link set swp2 master br0
3. ip link set swp3 up &amp;&amp; ip link set swp3 master br0
4. ip link set swp4 up &amp;&amp; ip link set swp4 master br0
5. bridge vlan del dev swp2 vid 1
6. bridge vlan del dev swp3 vid 1
7. ip link set swp4 nomaster
8. ip link set swp3 nomaster

produces the following output:

[  641.010738] sja1105 spi0.1: port 2 failed to delete 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 vid 1 from fdb: -2

[ swp2, swp3 and br0 all have the same MAC address, the one listed above ]

In short, this happens because the number of FDB entry additions
notified to switchdev is unbalanced with the number of deletions.

At step 1, the bridge has a random MAC address. At step 2, the
br_fdb_replay of swp2 receives this initial MAC address. Then the bridge
inherits the MAC address of swp2 via br_fdb_change_mac_address(), and it
notifies switchdev (only swp2 at this point) of the deletion of the
random MAC address and the addition of 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 as a local FDB
entry with fdb-&gt;dst == swp2, in VLANs 0 and the default_pvid (1).

During step 7:

del_nbp
-&gt; br_fdb_delete_by_port(br, p, vid=0, do_all=1);
   -&gt; fdb_delete_local(br, p, f);

br_fdb_delete_by_port() deletes all entries towards the ports,
regardless of vid, because do_all is 1.

fdb_delete_local() has logic to migrate local FDB entries deleted from
one port to another port which shares the same MAC address and is in the
same VLAN, or to the bridge device itself. This migration happens
without notifying switchdev of the deletion on the old port and the
addition on the new one, just fdb-&gt;dst is changed and the added_by_user
flag is cleared.

In the example above, the del_nbp(swp4) causes the
"addr 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 vid 1" local FDB entry with fdb-&gt;dst == swp4
that existed up until then to be migrated directly towards the bridge
(fdb-&gt;dst == NULL). This is because it cannot be migrated to any of the
other ports (swp2 and swp3 are not in VLAN 1).

After the migration to br0 takes place, swp4 requests a deletion replay
of all FDB entries. Since the "addr 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 vid 1" entry now
point towards the bridge, a deletion of it is replayed. There was just
a prior addition of this address, so the switchdev driver deletes this
entry.

Then, the del_nbp(swp3) at step 8 triggers another br_fdb_replay, and
switchdev is notified again to delete "addr 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 vid 1".
But it can't because it no longer has it, so it returns -ENOENT.

There are other possibilities to trigger this issue, but this is by far
the simplest to explain.

To fix this, we must avoid the situation where the addition of an FDB
entry is notified to switchdev as a local entry on a port, and the
deletion is notified on the bridge itself.

Considering that the 2 types of FDB entries are completely equivalent
and we cannot have the same MAC address as a local entry on 2 bridge
ports, or on a bridge port and pointing towards the bridge at the same
time, it makes sense to hide away from switchdev completely the fact
that a local FDB entry is associated with a given bridge port at all.
Just say that it points towards the bridge, it should make no difference
whatsoever to the switchdev driver and should even lead to a simpler
overall implementation, will less cases to handle.

This also avoids any modification at all to the core bridge driver, just
what is reported to switchdev changes. With the local/permanent entries
on bridge ports being already reported to user space, it is hard to
believe that the bridge behavior can change in any backwards-incompatible
way such as making all local FDB entries point towards the bridge.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently the following script:

1. ip link add br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 &amp;&amp; ip link set br0 up
2. ip link set swp2 up &amp;&amp; ip link set swp2 master br0
3. ip link set swp3 up &amp;&amp; ip link set swp3 master br0
4. ip link set swp4 up &amp;&amp; ip link set swp4 master br0
5. bridge vlan del dev swp2 vid 1
6. bridge vlan del dev swp3 vid 1
7. ip link set swp4 nomaster
8. ip link set swp3 nomaster

produces the following output:

[  641.010738] sja1105 spi0.1: port 2 failed to delete 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 vid 1 from fdb: -2

[ swp2, swp3 and br0 all have the same MAC address, the one listed above ]

In short, this happens because the number of FDB entry additions
notified to switchdev is unbalanced with the number of deletions.

At step 1, the bridge has a random MAC address. At step 2, the
br_fdb_replay of swp2 receives this initial MAC address. Then the bridge
inherits the MAC address of swp2 via br_fdb_change_mac_address(), and it
notifies switchdev (only swp2 at this point) of the deletion of the
random MAC address and the addition of 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 as a local FDB
entry with fdb-&gt;dst == swp2, in VLANs 0 and the default_pvid (1).

During step 7:

del_nbp
-&gt; br_fdb_delete_by_port(br, p, vid=0, do_all=1);
   -&gt; fdb_delete_local(br, p, f);

br_fdb_delete_by_port() deletes all entries towards the ports,
regardless of vid, because do_all is 1.

fdb_delete_local() has logic to migrate local FDB entries deleted from
one port to another port which shares the same MAC address and is in the
same VLAN, or to the bridge device itself. This migration happens
without notifying switchdev of the deletion on the old port and the
addition on the new one, just fdb-&gt;dst is changed and the added_by_user
flag is cleared.

In the example above, the del_nbp(swp4) causes the
"addr 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 vid 1" local FDB entry with fdb-&gt;dst == swp4
that existed up until then to be migrated directly towards the bridge
(fdb-&gt;dst == NULL). This is because it cannot be migrated to any of the
other ports (swp2 and swp3 are not in VLAN 1).

After the migration to br0 takes place, swp4 requests a deletion replay
of all FDB entries. Since the "addr 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 vid 1" entry now
point towards the bridge, a deletion of it is replayed. There was just
a prior addition of this address, so the switchdev driver deletes this
entry.

Then, the del_nbp(swp3) at step 8 triggers another br_fdb_replay, and
switchdev is notified again to delete "addr 00:1f:7b:63:02:48 vid 1".
But it can't because it no longer has it, so it returns -ENOENT.

There are other possibilities to trigger this issue, but this is by far
the simplest to explain.

To fix this, we must avoid the situation where the addition of an FDB
entry is notified to switchdev as a local entry on a port, and the
deletion is notified on the bridge itself.

Considering that the 2 types of FDB entries are completely equivalent
and we cannot have the same MAC address as a local entry on 2 bridge
ports, or on a bridge port and pointing towards the bridge at the same
time, it makes sense to hide away from switchdev completely the fact
that a local FDB entry is associated with a given bridge port at all.
Just say that it points towards the bridge, it should make no difference
whatsoever to the switchdev driver and should even lead to a simpler
overall implementation, will less cases to handle.

This also avoids any modification at all to the core bridge driver, just
what is reported to switchdev changes. With the local/permanent entries
on bridge ports being already reported to user space, it is hard to
believe that the bridge behavior can change in any backwards-incompatible
way such as making all local FDB entries point towards the bridge.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: bridge: switchdev: replay the entire FDB for each port</title>
<updated>2021-07-28T19:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-28T18:27:47+00:00</published>
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Currently when a switchdev port joins a bridge, we replay all FDB
entries pointing towards that port or towards the bridge.

However, this is insufficient in certain situations:

(a) DSA, through its assisted_learning_on_cpu_port logic, snoops
    dynamically learned FDB entries on foreign interfaces.
    These are FDB entries that are pointing neither towards the newly
    joined switchdev port, nor towards the bridge. So these addresses
    would be missed when joining a bridge where a foreign interface has
    already learned some addresses, and they would also linger on if the
    DSA port leaves the bridge before the foreign interface forgets them.
    None of this happens if we replay the entire FDB when the port joins.

(b) There is a desire to treat local FDB entries on a port (i.e. the
    port's termination MAC address) identically to FDB entries pointing
    towards the bridge itself. More details on the reason behind this in
    the next patch. The point is that this cannot be done given the
    current structure of br_fdb_replay() in this situation:
      ip link set swp0 master br0  # br0 inherits its MAC address from swp0
      ip link set swp1 master br0
    What is desirable is that when swp1 joins the bridge, br_fdb_replay()
    also notifies swp1 of br0's MAC address, but this won't in fact
    happen because the MAC address of br0 does not have fdb-&gt;dst == NULL
    (it doesn't point towards the bridge), but it has fdb-&gt;dst == swp0.
    So our current logic makes it impossible for that address to be
    replayed. But if we dump the entire FDB instead of just the entries
    with fdb-&gt;dst == swp1 and fdb-&gt;dst == NULL, then the inherited MAC
    address of br0 will be replayed too, which is what we need.

A natural question arises: say there is an FDB entry to be replayed,
like a MAC address dynamically learned on a foreign interface that
belongs to a bridge where no switchdev port has joined yet. If 10
switchdev ports belonging to the same driver join this bridge, one by
one, won't every port get notified 10 times of the foreign FDB entry,
amounting to a total of 100 notifications for this FDB entry in the
switchdev driver?

Well, yes, but this is where the "void *ctx" argument for br_fdb_replay
is useful: every port of the switchdev driver is notified whenever any
other port requests an FDB replay, but because the replay was initiated
by a different port, its context is different from the initiating port's
context, so it ignores those replays.

So the foreign FDB entry will be installed only 10 times, once per port.
This is done so that the following 4 code paths are always well balanced:
(a) addition of foreign FDB entry is replayed when port joins bridge
(b) deletion of foreign FDB entry is replayed when port leaves bridge
(c) addition of foreign FDB entry is notified to all ports currently in bridge
(c) deletion of foreign FDB entry is notified to all ports currently in bridge

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently when a switchdev port joins a bridge, we replay all FDB
entries pointing towards that port or towards the bridge.

However, this is insufficient in certain situations:

(a) DSA, through its assisted_learning_on_cpu_port logic, snoops
    dynamically learned FDB entries on foreign interfaces.
    These are FDB entries that are pointing neither towards the newly
    joined switchdev port, nor towards the bridge. So these addresses
    would be missed when joining a bridge where a foreign interface has
    already learned some addresses, and they would also linger on if the
    DSA port leaves the bridge before the foreign interface forgets them.
    None of this happens if we replay the entire FDB when the port joins.

(b) There is a desire to treat local FDB entries on a port (i.e. the
    port's termination MAC address) identically to FDB entries pointing
    towards the bridge itself. More details on the reason behind this in
    the next patch. The point is that this cannot be done given the
    current structure of br_fdb_replay() in this situation:
      ip link set swp0 master br0  # br0 inherits its MAC address from swp0
      ip link set swp1 master br0
    What is desirable is that when swp1 joins the bridge, br_fdb_replay()
    also notifies swp1 of br0's MAC address, but this won't in fact
    happen because the MAC address of br0 does not have fdb-&gt;dst == NULL
    (it doesn't point towards the bridge), but it has fdb-&gt;dst == swp0.
    So our current logic makes it impossible for that address to be
    replayed. But if we dump the entire FDB instead of just the entries
    with fdb-&gt;dst == swp1 and fdb-&gt;dst == NULL, then the inherited MAC
    address of br0 will be replayed too, which is what we need.

A natural question arises: say there is an FDB entry to be replayed,
like a MAC address dynamically learned on a foreign interface that
belongs to a bridge where no switchdev port has joined yet. If 10
switchdev ports belonging to the same driver join this bridge, one by
one, won't every port get notified 10 times of the foreign FDB entry,
amounting to a total of 100 notifications for this FDB entry in the
switchdev driver?

Well, yes, but this is where the "void *ctx" argument for br_fdb_replay
is useful: every port of the switchdev driver is notified whenever any
other port requests an FDB replay, but because the replay was initiated
by a different port, its context is different from the initiating port's
context, so it ignores those replays.

So the foreign FDB entry will be installed only 10 times, once per port.
This is done so that the following 4 code paths are always well balanced:
(a) addition of foreign FDB entry is replayed when port joins bridge
(b) deletion of foreign FDB entry is replayed when port leaves bridge
(c) addition of foreign FDB entry is notified to all ports currently in bridge
(c) deletion of foreign FDB entry is notified to all ports currently in bridge

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: bridge: fix build when setting skb-&gt;offload_fwd_mark with CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV=n</title>
<updated>2021-07-24T20:48:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-23T20:49:11+00:00</published>
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Switchdev support can be disabled at compile time, and in that case,
struct sk_buff will not contain the offload_fwd_mark field.

To make the code in br_forward.c work in both cases, we do what is done
in other places and we create a helper function, with an empty shim
definition, that is implemented by the br_switchdev.o translation module.
This is always compiled if and only if CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV is y or m.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 472111920f1c ("net: bridge: switchdev: allow the TX data plane forwarding to be offloaded")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Switchdev support can be disabled at compile time, and in that case,
struct sk_buff will not contain the offload_fwd_mark field.

To make the code in br_forward.c work in both cases, we do what is done
in other places and we create a helper function, with an empty shim
definition, that is implemented by the br_switchdev.o translation module.
This is always compiled if and only if CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV is y or m.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 472111920f1c ("net: bridge: switchdev: allow the TX data plane forwarding to be offloaded")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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