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<title>net: dsa: tag_ocelot: use traffic class to map priority on injected header</title>
<updated>2021-12-23T17:44:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiaoliang Yang</name>
<email>xiaoliang.yang_1@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-23T07:22:11+00:00</published>
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For Ocelot switches, the CPU injected frames have an injection header
where it can specify the QoS class of the packet and the DSA tag, now it
uses the SKB priority to set that. If a traffic class to priority
mapping is configured on the netdevice (with mqprio for example ...), it
won't be considered for CPU injected headers. This patch make the QoS
class aligned to the priority to traffic class mapping if it exists.

Fixes: 8dce89aa5f32 ("net: dsa: ocelot: add tagger for Ocelot/Felix switches")
Signed-off-by: Xiaoliang Yang &lt;xiaoliang.yang_1@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marouen Ghodhbane &lt;marouen.ghodhbane@nxp.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211223072211.33130-1-xiaoliang.yang_1@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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For Ocelot switches, the CPU injected frames have an injection header
where it can specify the QoS class of the packet and the DSA tag, now it
uses the SKB priority to set that. If a traffic class to priority
mapping is configured on the netdevice (with mqprio for example ...), it
won't be considered for CPU injected headers. This patch make the QoS
class aligned to the priority to traffic class mapping if it exists.

Fixes: 8dce89aa5f32 ("net: dsa: ocelot: add tagger for Ocelot/Felix switches")
Signed-off-by: Xiaoliang Yang &lt;xiaoliang.yang_1@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marouen Ghodhbane &lt;marouen.ghodhbane@nxp.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211223072211.33130-1-xiaoliang.yang_1@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: felix: fix broken VLAN-tagged PTP under VLAN-aware bridge</title>
<updated>2021-11-03T14:22:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T19:31:22+00:00</published>
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Normally it is expected that the dsa_device_ops :: rcv() method finishes
parsing the DSA tag and consumes it, then never looks at it again.

But commit c0bcf537667c ("net: dsa: ocelot: add hardware timestamping
support for Felix") added support for RX timestamping in a very
unconventional way. On this switch, a partial timestamp is available in
the DSA header, but the driver got away with not parsing that timestamp
right away, but instead delayed that parsing for a little longer:

dsa_switch_rcv():
	nskb = cpu_dp-&gt;rcv(skb, dev); &lt;------------- not here
	-&gt; ocelot_rcv()
	...

	skb = nskb;
	skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN);
	skb-&gt;pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
	skb-&gt;protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, skb-&gt;dev);

	...

	if (dsa_skb_defer_rx_timestamp(p, skb)) &lt;--- but here
	-&gt; felix_rxtstamp()
		return 0;

When in felix_rxtstamp(), this driver accounted for the fact that
eth_type_trans() happened in the meanwhile, so it got a hold of the
extraction header again by subtracting (ETH_HLEN + OCELOT_TAG_LEN) bytes
from the current skb-&gt;data.

This worked for quite some time but was quite fragile from the very
beginning. Not to mention that having DSA tag parsing split in two
different files, under different folders (net/dsa/tag_ocelot.c vs
drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c) made it quite non-obvious for patches to
come that they might break this.

Finally, the blamed commit does the following: at the end of
ocelot_rcv(), it checks whether the skb payload contains a VLAN header.
If it does, and this port is under a VLAN-aware bridge, that VLAN ID
might not be correct in the sense that the packet might have suffered
VLAN rewriting due to TCAM rules (VCAP IS1). So we consume the VLAN ID
from the skb payload using __skb_vlan_pop(), and take the classified
VLAN ID from the DSA tag, and construct a hwaccel VLAN tag with the
classified VLAN, and the skb payload is VLAN-untagged.

The big problem is that __skb_vlan_pop() does:

	memmove(skb-&gt;data + VLAN_HLEN, skb-&gt;data, 2 * ETH_ALEN);
	__skb_pull(skb, VLAN_HLEN);

aka it moves the Ethernet header 4 bytes to the right, and pulls 4 bytes
from the skb headroom (effectively also moving skb-&gt;data, by definition).
So for felix_rxtstamp()'s fragile logic, all bets are off now.
Instead of having the "extraction" pointer point to the DSA header,
it actually points to 4 bytes _inside_ the extraction header.
Corollary, the last 4 bytes of the "extraction" header are in fact 4
stale bytes of the destination MAC address from the Ethernet header,
from prior to the __skb_vlan_pop() movement.

So of course, RX timestamps are completely bogus when the system is
configured in this way.

The fix is actually very simple: just don't structure the code like that.
For better or worse, the DSA PTP timestamping API does not offer a
straightforward way for drivers to present their RX timestamps, but
other drivers (sja1105) have established a simple mechanism to carry
their RX timestamp from dsa_device_ops :: rcv() all the way to
dsa_switch_ops :: port_rxtstamp() and even later. That mechanism is to
simply save the partial timestamp to the skb-&gt;cb, and complete it later.

Question: why don't we simply populate the skb's struct
skb_shared_hwtstamps from ocelot_rcv(), and bother with this
complication of propagating the timestamp to felix_rxtstamp()?

Answer: dsa_switch_ops :: port_rxtstamp() answers the question whether
PTP packets need sleepable context to retrieve the full RX timestamp.
Currently felix_rxtstamp() answers "no, thanks" to that question, and
calls ocelot_ptp_gettime64() from softirq atomic context. This is
understandable, since Felix VSC9959 is a PCIe memory-mapped switch, so
hardware access does not require sleeping. But the felix driver is
preparing for the introduction of other switches where hardware access
is over a slow bus like SPI or MDIO:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210814025003.2449143-1-colin.foster@in-advantage.com/

So I would like to keep this code structure, so the rework needed when
that driver will need PTP support will be minimal (answer "yes, I need
deferred context for this skb's RX timestamp", then the partial
timestamp will still be found in the skb-&gt;cb.

Fixes: ea440cd2d9b2 ("net: dsa: tag_ocelot: use VLAN information from tagging header when available")
Reported-by: Po Liu &lt;po.liu@nxp.com&gt;
Cc: Yangbo Lu &lt;yangbo.lu@nxp.com&gt;
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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Normally it is expected that the dsa_device_ops :: rcv() method finishes
parsing the DSA tag and consumes it, then never looks at it again.

But commit c0bcf537667c ("net: dsa: ocelot: add hardware timestamping
support for Felix") added support for RX timestamping in a very
unconventional way. On this switch, a partial timestamp is available in
the DSA header, but the driver got away with not parsing that timestamp
right away, but instead delayed that parsing for a little longer:

dsa_switch_rcv():
	nskb = cpu_dp-&gt;rcv(skb, dev); &lt;------------- not here
	-&gt; ocelot_rcv()
	...

	skb = nskb;
	skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN);
	skb-&gt;pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
	skb-&gt;protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, skb-&gt;dev);

	...

	if (dsa_skb_defer_rx_timestamp(p, skb)) &lt;--- but here
	-&gt; felix_rxtstamp()
		return 0;

When in felix_rxtstamp(), this driver accounted for the fact that
eth_type_trans() happened in the meanwhile, so it got a hold of the
extraction header again by subtracting (ETH_HLEN + OCELOT_TAG_LEN) bytes
from the current skb-&gt;data.

This worked for quite some time but was quite fragile from the very
beginning. Not to mention that having DSA tag parsing split in two
different files, under different folders (net/dsa/tag_ocelot.c vs
drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c) made it quite non-obvious for patches to
come that they might break this.

Finally, the blamed commit does the following: at the end of
ocelot_rcv(), it checks whether the skb payload contains a VLAN header.
If it does, and this port is under a VLAN-aware bridge, that VLAN ID
might not be correct in the sense that the packet might have suffered
VLAN rewriting due to TCAM rules (VCAP IS1). So we consume the VLAN ID
from the skb payload using __skb_vlan_pop(), and take the classified
VLAN ID from the DSA tag, and construct a hwaccel VLAN tag with the
classified VLAN, and the skb payload is VLAN-untagged.

The big problem is that __skb_vlan_pop() does:

	memmove(skb-&gt;data + VLAN_HLEN, skb-&gt;data, 2 * ETH_ALEN);
	__skb_pull(skb, VLAN_HLEN);

aka it moves the Ethernet header 4 bytes to the right, and pulls 4 bytes
from the skb headroom (effectively also moving skb-&gt;data, by definition).
So for felix_rxtstamp()'s fragile logic, all bets are off now.
Instead of having the "extraction" pointer point to the DSA header,
it actually points to 4 bytes _inside_ the extraction header.
Corollary, the last 4 bytes of the "extraction" header are in fact 4
stale bytes of the destination MAC address from the Ethernet header,
from prior to the __skb_vlan_pop() movement.

So of course, RX timestamps are completely bogus when the system is
configured in this way.

The fix is actually very simple: just don't structure the code like that.
For better or worse, the DSA PTP timestamping API does not offer a
straightforward way for drivers to present their RX timestamps, but
other drivers (sja1105) have established a simple mechanism to carry
their RX timestamp from dsa_device_ops :: rcv() all the way to
dsa_switch_ops :: port_rxtstamp() and even later. That mechanism is to
simply save the partial timestamp to the skb-&gt;cb, and complete it later.

Question: why don't we simply populate the skb's struct
skb_shared_hwtstamps from ocelot_rcv(), and bother with this
complication of propagating the timestamp to felix_rxtstamp()?

Answer: dsa_switch_ops :: port_rxtstamp() answers the question whether
PTP packets need sleepable context to retrieve the full RX timestamp.
Currently felix_rxtstamp() answers "no, thanks" to that question, and
calls ocelot_ptp_gettime64() from softirq atomic context. This is
understandable, since Felix VSC9959 is a PCIe memory-mapped switch, so
hardware access does not require sleeping. But the felix driver is
preparing for the introduction of other switches where hardware access
is over a slow bus like SPI or MDIO:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210814025003.2449143-1-colin.foster@in-advantage.com/

So I would like to keep this code structure, so the rework needed when
that driver will need PTP support will be minimal (answer "yes, I need
deferred context for this skb's RX timestamp", then the partial
timestamp will still be found in the skb-&gt;cb.

Fixes: ea440cd2d9b2 ("net: dsa: tag_ocelot: use VLAN information from tagging header when available")
Reported-by: Po Liu &lt;po.liu@nxp.com&gt;
Cc: Yangbo Lu &lt;yangbo.lu@nxp.com&gt;
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>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: populate supported_interfaces member</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T13:06:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marek Behún</name>
<email>kabel@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-28T17:00:14+00:00</published>
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Add a new DSA switch operation, phylink_get_interfaces, which should
fill in which PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_* are supported by given port.

Use this before phylink_create() to fill phylinks supported_interfaces
member, allowing phylink to determine which PHY_INTERFACE_MODEs are
supported.

Signed-off-by: Marek Behún &lt;kabel@kernel.org&gt;
[tweaked patch and description to add more complete support -- rmk]
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add a new DSA switch operation, phylink_get_interfaces, which should
fill in which PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_* are supported by given port.

Use this before phylink_create() to fill phylinks supported_interfaces
member, allowing phylink to determine which PHY_INTERFACE_MODEs are
supported.

Signed-off-by: Marek Behún &lt;kabel@kernel.org&gt;
[tweaked patch and description to add more complete support -- rmk]
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: switchdev: merge switchdev_handle_fdb_{add,del}_to_device</title>
<updated>2021-10-27T13:54:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T14:27:43+00:00</published>
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To reduce code churn, the same patch makes multiple changes, since they
all touch the same lines:

1. The implementations for these two are identical, just with different
   function pointers. Reduce duplications and name the function pointers
   "mod_cb" instead of "add_cb" and "del_cb". Pass the event as argument.

2. Drop the "const" attribute from "orig_dev". If the driver needs to
   check whether orig_dev belongs to itself and then
   call_switchdev_notifiers(orig_dev, SWITCHDEV_FDB_OFFLOADED), it
   can't, because call_switchdev_notifiers takes a non-const struct
   net_device *.

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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To reduce code churn, the same patch makes multiple changes, since they
all touch the same lines:

1. The implementations for these two are identical, just with different
   function pointers. Reduce duplications and name the function pointers
   "mod_cb" instead of "add_cb" and "del_cb". Pass the event as argument.

2. Drop the "const" attribute from "orig_dev". If the driver needs to
   check whether orig_dev belongs to itself and then
   call_switchdev_notifiers(orig_dev, SWITCHDEV_FDB_OFFLOADED), it
   can't, because call_switchdev_notifiers takes a non-const struct
   net_device *.

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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: stop calling dev_hold in dsa_slave_fdb_event</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T14:07:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T09:25:56+00:00</published>
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Now that we guarantee that SWITCHDEV_FDB_{ADD,DEL}_TO_DEVICE events have
finished executing by the time we leave our bridge upper interface,
we've established a stronger boundary condition for how long the
dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work() might run.

As such, it is no longer possible for DSA slave interfaces to become
unregistered, since they are still bridge ports.

So delete the unnecessary dev_hold() and dev_put().

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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Now that we guarantee that SWITCHDEV_FDB_{ADD,DEL}_TO_DEVICE events have
finished executing by the time we leave our bridge upper interface,
we've established a stronger boundary condition for how long the
dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work() might run.

As such, it is no longer possible for DSA slave interfaces to become
unregistered, since they are still bridge ports.

So delete the unnecessary dev_hold() and dev_put().

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: flush switchdev workqueue when leaving the bridge</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T14:07:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T09:25:55+00:00</published>
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DSA is preparing to offer switch drivers an API through which they can
associate each FDB entry with a struct net_device *bridge_dev. This can
be used to perform FDB isolation (the FDB lookup performed on the
ingress of a standalone, or bridged port, should not find an FDB entry
that is present in the FDB of another bridge).

In preparation of that work, DSA needs to ensure that by the time we
call the switch .port_fdb_add and .port_fdb_del methods, the
dp-&gt;bridge_dev pointer is still valid, i.e. the port is still a bridge
port.

This is not guaranteed because the SWITCHDEV_FDB_{ADD,DEL}_TO_DEVICE API
requires drivers that must have sleepable context to handle those events
to schedule the deferred work themselves. DSA does this through the
dsa_owq.

It can happen that a port leaves a bridge, del_nbp() flushes the FDB on
that port, SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL_TO_DEVICE is notified in atomic context,
DSA schedules its deferred work, but del_nbp() finishes unlinking the
bridge as a master from the port before DSA's deferred work is run.

Fundamentally, the port must not be unlinked from the bridge until all
FDB deletion deferred work items have been flushed. The bridge must wait
for the completion of these hardware accesses.

An attempt has been made to address this issue centrally in switchdev by
making SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL_TO_DEVICE deferred (=&gt; blocking) at the switchdev
level, which would offer implicit synchronization with del_nbp:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20210820115746.3701811-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com/

but it seems that any attempt to modify switchdev's behavior and make
the events blocking there would introduce undesirable side effects in
other switchdev consumers.

The most undesirable behavior seems to be that
switchdev_deferred_process_work() takes the rtnl_mutex itself, which
would be worse off than having the rtnl_mutex taken individually from
drivers which is what we have now (except DSA which has removed that
lock since commit 0faf890fc519 ("net: dsa: drop rtnl_lock from
dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work")).

So to offer the needed guarantee to DSA switch drivers, I have come up
with a compromise solution that does not require switchdev rework:
we already have a hook at the last moment in time when the bridge is
still an upper of ours: the NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER handler. We can flush
the dsa_owq manually from there, which makes all FDB deletions
synchronous.

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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DSA is preparing to offer switch drivers an API through which they can
associate each FDB entry with a struct net_device *bridge_dev. This can
be used to perform FDB isolation (the FDB lookup performed on the
ingress of a standalone, or bridged port, should not find an FDB entry
that is present in the FDB of another bridge).

In preparation of that work, DSA needs to ensure that by the time we
call the switch .port_fdb_add and .port_fdb_del methods, the
dp-&gt;bridge_dev pointer is still valid, i.e. the port is still a bridge
port.

This is not guaranteed because the SWITCHDEV_FDB_{ADD,DEL}_TO_DEVICE API
requires drivers that must have sleepable context to handle those events
to schedule the deferred work themselves. DSA does this through the
dsa_owq.

It can happen that a port leaves a bridge, del_nbp() flushes the FDB on
that port, SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL_TO_DEVICE is notified in atomic context,
DSA schedules its deferred work, but del_nbp() finishes unlinking the
bridge as a master from the port before DSA's deferred work is run.

Fundamentally, the port must not be unlinked from the bridge until all
FDB deletion deferred work items have been flushed. The bridge must wait
for the completion of these hardware accesses.

An attempt has been made to address this issue centrally in switchdev by
making SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL_TO_DEVICE deferred (=&gt; blocking) at the switchdev
level, which would offer implicit synchronization with del_nbp:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20210820115746.3701811-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com/

but it seems that any attempt to modify switchdev's behavior and make
the events blocking there would introduce undesirable side effects in
other switchdev consumers.

The most undesirable behavior seems to be that
switchdev_deferred_process_work() takes the rtnl_mutex itself, which
would be worse off than having the rtnl_mutex taken individually from
drivers which is what we have now (except DSA which has removed that
lock since commit 0faf890fc519 ("net: dsa: drop rtnl_lock from
dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work")).

So to offer the needed guarantee to DSA switch drivers, I have come up
with a compromise solution that does not require switchdev rework:
we already have a hook at the last moment in time when the bridge is
still an upper of ours: the NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER handler. We can flush
the dsa_owq manually from there, which makes all FDB deletions
synchronous.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: drop rtnl_lock from dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work</title>
<updated>2021-10-25T11:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-24T17:17:55+00:00</published>
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After talking with Ido Schimmel, it became clear that rtnl_lock is not
actually required for anything that is done inside the
SWITCHDEV_FDB_{ADD,DEL}_TO_DEVICE deferred work handlers.

The reason why it was probably added by Arkadi Sharshevsky in commit
c9eb3e0f8701 ("net: dsa: Add support for learning FDB through
notification") was to offer the same locking/serialization guarantees as
.ndo_fdb_{add,del} and avoid reworking any drivers.

DSA has implemented .ndo_fdb_add and .ndo_fdb_del until commit
b117e1e8a86d ("net: dsa: delete dsa_legacy_fdb_add and
dsa_legacy_fdb_del") - that is to say, until fairly recently.

But those methods have been deleted, so now we are free to drop the
rtnl_lock as well.

Note that exposing DSA switch drivers to an unlocked method which was
previously serialized by the rtnl_mutex is a potentially dangerous
affair. Driver writers couldn't ensure that their internal locking
scheme does the right thing even if they wanted.

We could err on the side of paranoia and introduce a switch-wide lock
inside the DSA framework, but that seems way overreaching. Instead, we
could check as many drivers for regressions as we can, fix those first,
then let this change go in once it is assumed to be fairly safe.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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After talking with Ido Schimmel, it became clear that rtnl_lock is not
actually required for anything that is done inside the
SWITCHDEV_FDB_{ADD,DEL}_TO_DEVICE deferred work handlers.

The reason why it was probably added by Arkadi Sharshevsky in commit
c9eb3e0f8701 ("net: dsa: Add support for learning FDB through
notification") was to offer the same locking/serialization guarantees as
.ndo_fdb_{add,del} and avoid reworking any drivers.

DSA has implemented .ndo_fdb_add and .ndo_fdb_del until commit
b117e1e8a86d ("net: dsa: delete dsa_legacy_fdb_add and
dsa_legacy_fdb_del") - that is to say, until fairly recently.

But those methods have been deleted, so now we are free to drop the
rtnl_lock as well.

Note that exposing DSA switch drivers to an unlocked method which was
previously serialized by the rtnl_mutex is a potentially dangerous
affair. Driver writers couldn't ensure that their internal locking
scheme does the right thing even if they wanted.

We could err on the side of paranoia and introduce a switch-wide lock
inside the DSA framework, but that seems way overreaching. Instead, we
could check as many drivers for regressions as we can, fix those first,
then let this change go in once it is assumed to be fairly safe.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: dsa: introduce locking for the address lists on CPU and DSA ports</title>
<updated>2021-10-25T11:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-24T17:17:54+00:00</published>
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Now that the rtnl_mutex is going away for dsa_port_{host_,}fdb_{add,del},
no one is serializing access to the address lists that DSA keeps for the
purpose of reference counting on shared ports (CPU and cascade ports).

It can happen for one dsa_switch_do_fdb_del to do list_del on a dp-&gt;fdbs
element while another dsa_switch_do_fdb_{add,del} is traversing dp-&gt;fdbs.
We need to avoid that.

Currently dp-&gt;mdbs is not at risk, because dsa_switch_do_mdb_{add,del}
still runs under the rtnl_mutex. But it would be nice if it would not
depend on that being the case. So let's introduce a mutex per port (the
address lists are per port too) and share it between dp-&gt;mdbs and
dp-&gt;fdbs.

The place where we put the locking is interesting. It could be tempting
to put a DSA-level lock which still serializes calls to
.port_fdb_{add,del}, but it would still not avoid concurrency with other
driver code paths that are currently under rtnl_mutex (.port_fdb_dump,
.port_fast_age). So it would add a very false sense of security (and
adding a global switch-wide lock in DSA to resynchronize with the
rtnl_lock is also counterproductive and hard).

So the locking is intentionally done only where the dp-&gt;fdbs and dp-&gt;mdbs
lists are traversed. That means, from a driver perspective, that
.port_fdb_add will be called with the dp-&gt;addr_lists_lock mutex held on
the CPU port, but not held on user ports. This is done so that driver
writers are not encouraged to rely on any guarantee offered by
dp-&gt;addr_lists_lock.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Now that the rtnl_mutex is going away for dsa_port_{host_,}fdb_{add,del},
no one is serializing access to the address lists that DSA keeps for the
purpose of reference counting on shared ports (CPU and cascade ports).

It can happen for one dsa_switch_do_fdb_del to do list_del on a dp-&gt;fdbs
element while another dsa_switch_do_fdb_{add,del} is traversing dp-&gt;fdbs.
We need to avoid that.

Currently dp-&gt;mdbs is not at risk, because dsa_switch_do_mdb_{add,del}
still runs under the rtnl_mutex. But it would be nice if it would not
depend on that being the case. So let's introduce a mutex per port (the
address lists are per port too) and share it between dp-&gt;mdbs and
dp-&gt;fdbs.

The place where we put the locking is interesting. It could be tempting
to put a DSA-level lock which still serializes calls to
.port_fdb_{add,del}, but it would still not avoid concurrency with other
driver code paths that are currently under rtnl_mutex (.port_fdb_dump,
.port_fast_age). So it would add a very false sense of security (and
adding a global switch-wide lock in DSA to resynchronize with the
rtnl_lock is also counterproductive and hard).

So the locking is intentionally done only where the dp-&gt;fdbs and dp-&gt;mdbs
lists are traversed. That means, from a driver perspective, that
.port_fdb_add will be called with the dp-&gt;addr_lists_lock mutex held on
the CPU port, but not held on user ports. This is done so that driver
writers are not encouraged to rely on any guarantee offered by
dp-&gt;addr_lists_lock.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: avoid refcount warnings when -&gt;port_{fdb,mdb}_del returns error</title>
<updated>2021-10-25T11:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-24T17:17:48+00:00</published>
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At present, when either of ds-&gt;ops-&gt;port_fdb_del() or ds-&gt;ops-&gt;port_mdb_del()
return a non-zero error code, we attempt to save the day and keep the
data structure associated with that switchdev object, as the deletion
procedure did not complete.

However, the way in which we do this is suspicious to the checker in
lib/refcount.c, who thinks it is buggy to increment a refcount that
became zero, and that this is indicative of a use-after-free.

Fixes: 161ca59d39e9 ("net: dsa: reference count the MDB entries at the cross-chip notifier level")
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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At present, when either of ds-&gt;ops-&gt;port_fdb_del() or ds-&gt;ops-&gt;port_mdb_del()
return a non-zero error code, we attempt to save the day and keep the
data structure associated with that switchdev object, as the deletion
procedure did not complete.

However, the way in which we do this is suspicious to the checker in
lib/refcount.c, who thinks it is buggy to increment a refcount that
became zero, and that this is indicative of a use-after-free.

Fixes: 161ca59d39e9 ("net: dsa: reference count the MDB entries at the cross-chip notifier level")
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>Revert "Merge branch 'dsa-rtnl'"</title>
<updated>2021-10-25T11:59:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-25T11:59:25+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 965e6b262f48257dbdb51b565ecfd84877a0ab5f, reversing
changes made to 4d98bb0d7ec2d0b417df6207b0bafe1868bad9f8.
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This reverts commit 965e6b262f48257dbdb51b565ecfd84877a0ab5f, reversing
changes made to 4d98bb0d7ec2d0b417df6207b0bafe1868bad9f8.
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