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<title>bridge: switchdev: Allow device drivers to install locked FDB entries</title>
<updated>2022-11-10T03:06:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans J. Schultz</name>
<email>netdev@kapio-technology.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-08T10:47:08+00:00</published>
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When the bridge is offloaded to hardware, FDB entries are learned and
aged-out by the hardware. Some device drivers synchronize the hardware
and software FDBs by generating switchdev events towards the bridge.

When a port is locked, the hardware must not learn autonomously, as
otherwise any host will blindly gain authorization. Instead, the
hardware should generate events regarding hosts that are trying to gain
authorization and their MAC addresses should be notified by the device
driver as locked FDB entries towards the bridge driver.

Allow device drivers to notify the bridge driver about such entries by
extending the 'switchdev_notifier_fdb_info' structure with the 'locked'
bit. The bit can only be set by device drivers and not by the bridge
driver.

Prevent a locked entry from being installed if MAB is not enabled on the
bridge port.

If an entry already exists in the bridge driver, reject the locked entry
if the current entry does not have the "locked" flag set or if it points
to a different port. The same semantics are implemented in the software
data path.

Signed-off-by: Hans J. Schultz &lt;netdev@kapio-technology.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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When the bridge is offloaded to hardware, FDB entries are learned and
aged-out by the hardware. Some device drivers synchronize the hardware
and software FDBs by generating switchdev events towards the bridge.

When a port is locked, the hardware must not learn autonomously, as
otherwise any host will blindly gain authorization. Instead, the
hardware should generate events regarding hosts that are trying to gain
authorization and their MAC addresses should be notified by the device
driver as locked FDB entries towards the bridge driver.

Allow device drivers to notify the bridge driver about such entries by
extending the 'switchdev_notifier_fdb_info' structure with the 'locked'
bit. The bit can only be set by device drivers and not by the bridge
driver.

Prevent a locked entry from being installed if MAB is not enabled on the
bridge port.

If an entry already exists in the bridge driver, reject the locked entry
if the current entry does not have the "locked" flag set or if it points
to a different port. The same semantics are implemented in the software
data path.

Signed-off-by: Hans J. Schultz &lt;netdev@kapio-technology.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bridge: switchdev: Let device drivers determine FDB offload indication</title>
<updated>2022-11-10T03:06:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-08T10:47:07+00:00</published>
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Currently, FDB entries that are notified to the bridge via
'SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_BRIDGE' are always marked as offloaded. With MAB
enabled, this will no longer be universally true. Device drivers will
report locked FDB entries to the bridge to let it know that the
corresponding hosts required authorization, but it does not mean that
these entries are necessarily programmed in the underlying hardware.

Solve this by determining the offload indication based of the
'offloaded' bit in the FDB notification.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, FDB entries that are notified to the bridge via
'SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_BRIDGE' are always marked as offloaded. With MAB
enabled, this will no longer be universally true. Device drivers will
report locked FDB entries to the bridge to let it know that the
corresponding hosts required authorization, but it does not mean that
these entries are necessarily programmed in the underlying hardware.

Solve this by determining the offload indication based of the
'offloaded' bit in the FDB notification.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: bridge: mst: Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) mode</title>
<updated>2022-03-17T23:49:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Waldekranz</name>
<email>tobias@waldekranz.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-16T15:08:43+00:00</published>
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Allow the user to switch from the current per-VLAN STP mode to an MST
mode.

Up to this point, per-VLAN STP states where always isolated from each
other. This is in contrast to the MSTP standard (802.1Q-2018, Clause
13.5), where VLANs are grouped into MST instances (MSTIs), and the
state is managed on a per-MSTI level, rather that at the per-VLAN
level.

Perhaps due to the prevalence of the standard, many switching ASICs
are built after the same model. Therefore, add a corresponding MST
mode to the bridge, which we can later add offloading support for in a
straight-forward way.

For now, all VLANs are fixed to MSTI 0, also called the Common
Spanning Tree (CST). That is, all VLANs will follow the port-global
state.

Upcoming changes will make this actually useful by allowing VLANs to
be mapped to arbitrary MSTIs and allow individual MSTI states to be
changed.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Allow the user to switch from the current per-VLAN STP mode to an MST
mode.

Up to this point, per-VLAN STP states where always isolated from each
other. This is in contrast to the MSTP standard (802.1Q-2018, Clause
13.5), where VLANs are grouped into MST instances (MSTIs), and the
state is managed on a per-MSTI level, rather that at the per-VLAN
level.

Perhaps due to the prevalence of the standard, many switching ASICs
are built after the same model. Therefore, add a corresponding MST
mode to the bridge, which we can later add offloading support for in a
straight-forward way.

For now, all VLANs are fixed to MSTI 0, also called the Common
Spanning Tree (CST). That is, all VLANs will follow the port-global
state.

Upcoming changes will make this actually useful by allowing VLANs to
be mapped to arbitrary MSTIs and allow individual MSTI states to be
changed.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bridge: switch br_net_exit to batch mode</title>
<updated>2022-02-19T16:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-18T07:01:50+00:00</published>
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cleanup_net() is competing with other rtnl users.

Instead of calling br_net_exit() for each netns,
call br_net_exit_batch() once.

This gives cleanup_net() ability to group more devices
and call unregister_netdevice_many() only once for all bridge devices.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Roopa Prabhu &lt;roopa@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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cleanup_net() is competing with other rtnl users.

Instead of calling br_net_exit() for each netns,
call br_net_exit_batch() once.

This gives cleanup_net() ability to group more devices
and call unregister_netdevice_many() only once for all bridge devices.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Roopa Prabhu &lt;roopa@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: make use of helper netif_is_bridge_master()</title>
<updated>2021-10-16T14:02:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kyungrok Chung</name>
<email>acadx0@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-16T11:21:36+00:00</published>
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Make use of netdev helper functions to improve code readability.
Replace 'dev-&gt;priv_flags &amp; IFF_EBRIDGE' with netif_is_bridge_master(dev).

Signed-off-by: Kyungrok Chung &lt;acadx0@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Make use of netdev helper functions to improve code readability.
Replace 'dev-&gt;priv_flags &amp; IFF_EBRIDGE' with netif_is_bridge_master(dev).

Signed-off-by: Kyungrok Chung &lt;acadx0@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2021-08-13T13:41:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-13T13:41:22+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.h
  9e26680733d5 ("bnxt_en: Update firmware call to retrieve TX PTP timestamp")
  9e518f25802c ("bnxt_en: 1PPS functions to configure TSIO pins")
  099fdeda659d ("bnxt_en: Event handler for PPS events")

kernel/bpf/helpers.c
include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h
  a2baf4e8bb0f ("bpf: Fix potentially incorrect results with bpf_get_local_storage()")
  c7603cfa04e7 ("bpf: Add ambient BPF runtime context stored in current")

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
  5957cc557dc5 ("net/mlx5: Set all field of mlx5_irq before inserting it to the xarray")
  2d0b41a37679 ("net/mlx5: Refcount mlx5_irq with integer")

MAINTAINERS
  7b637cd52f02 ("MAINTAINERS: fix Microchip CAN BUS Analyzer Tool entry typo")
  7d901a1e878a ("net: phy: add Maxlinear GPY115/21x/24x driver")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.h
  9e26680733d5 ("bnxt_en: Update firmware call to retrieve TX PTP timestamp")
  9e518f25802c ("bnxt_en: 1PPS functions to configure TSIO pins")
  099fdeda659d ("bnxt_en: Event handler for PPS events")

kernel/bpf/helpers.c
include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h
  a2baf4e8bb0f ("bpf: Fix potentially incorrect results with bpf_get_local_storage()")
  c7603cfa04e7 ("bpf: Add ambient BPF runtime context stored in current")

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c
  5957cc557dc5 ("net/mlx5: Set all field of mlx5_irq before inserting it to the xarray")
  2d0b41a37679 ("net/mlx5: Refcount mlx5_irq with integer")

MAINTAINERS
  7b637cd52f02 ("MAINTAINERS: fix Microchip CAN BUS Analyzer Tool entry typo")
  7d901a1e878a ("net: phy: add Maxlinear GPY115/21x/24x driver")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: bridge: fix flags interpretation for extern learn fdb entries</title>
<updated>2021-08-10T18:29:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Aleksandrov</name>
<email>nikolay@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-10T11:00:10+00:00</published>
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Ignore fdb flags when adding port extern learn entries and always set
BR_FDB_LOCAL flag when adding bridge extern learn entries. This is
closest to the behaviour we had before and avoids breaking any use cases
which were allowed.

This patch fixes iproute2 calls which assume NUD_PERMANENT and were
allowed before, example:
$ bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev swp1 extern_learn

Extern learn entries are allowed to roam, but do not expire, so static
or dynamic flags make no sense for them.

Also add a comment for future reference.

Fixes: eb100e0e24a2 ("net: bridge: allow to add externally learned entries from user-space")
Fixes: 0541a6293298 ("net: bridge: validate the NUD_PERMANENT bit when adding an extern_learn FDB entry")
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210810110010.43859-1-razor@blackwall.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Ignore fdb flags when adding port extern learn entries and always set
BR_FDB_LOCAL flag when adding bridge extern learn entries. This is
closest to the behaviour we had before and avoids breaking any use cases
which were allowed.

This patch fixes iproute2 calls which assume NUD_PERMANENT and were
allowed before, example:
$ bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev swp1 extern_learn

Extern learn entries are allowed to roam, but do not expire, so static
or dynamic flags make no sense for them.

Also add a comment for future reference.

Fixes: eb100e0e24a2 ("net: bridge: allow to add externally learned entries from user-space")
Fixes: 0541a6293298 ("net: bridge: validate the NUD_PERMANENT bit when adding an extern_learn FDB entry")
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210810110010.43859-1-razor@blackwall.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2021-08-05T22:08:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-05T21:59:40+00:00</published>
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Build failure in drivers/net/wwan/mhi_wwan_mbim.c:
add missing parameter (0, assuming we don't want buffer pre-alloc).

Conflict in drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c between:
  589918df9322 ("net: dsa: sja1105: be stateless with FDB entries on SJA1105P/Q/R/S/SJA1110 too")
  0fac6aa098ed ("net: dsa: sja1105: delete the best_effort_vlan_filtering mode")

Follow the instructions from the commit message of the former commit
- removed the if conditions. When looking at commit 589918df9322 ("net:
dsa: sja1105: be stateless with FDB entries on SJA1105P/Q/R/S/SJA1110 too")
note that the mask_iotag fields get removed by the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Build failure in drivers/net/wwan/mhi_wwan_mbim.c:
add missing parameter (0, assuming we don't want buffer pre-alloc).

Conflict in drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c between:
  589918df9322 ("net: dsa: sja1105: be stateless with FDB entries on SJA1105P/Q/R/S/SJA1110 too")
  0fac6aa098ed ("net: dsa: sja1105: delete the best_effort_vlan_filtering mode")

Follow the instructions from the commit message of the former commit
- removed the if conditions. When looking at commit 589918df9322 ("net:
dsa: sja1105: be stateless with FDB entries on SJA1105P/Q/R/S/SJA1110 too")
note that the mask_iotag fields get removed by the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</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;
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<title>net: bridge: validate the NUD_PERMANENT bit when adding an extern_learn FDB entry</title>
<updated>2021-08-02T22:00:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-01T23:17:30+00:00</published>
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Currently it is possible to add broken extern_learn FDB entries to the
bridge in two ways:

1. Entries pointing towards the bridge device that are not local/permanent:

ip link add br0 type bridge
bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn static

2. Entries pointing towards the bridge device or towards a port that
are marked as local/permanent, however the bridge does not process the
'permanent' bit in any way, therefore they are recorded as though they
aren't permanent:

ip link add br0 type bridge
bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn permanent

Since commit 52e4bec15546 ("net: bridge: switchdev: treat local FDBs the
same as entries towards the bridge"), these incorrect FDB entries can
even trigger NULL pointer dereferences inside the kernel.

This is because that commit made the assumption that all FDB entries
that are not local/permanent have a valid destination port. For context,
local / permanent FDB entries either have fdb-&gt;dst == NULL, and these
point towards the bridge device and are therefore local and not to be
used for forwarding, or have fdb-&gt;dst == a net_bridge_port structure
(but are to be treated in the same way, i.e. not for forwarding).

That assumption _is_ correct as long as things are working correctly in
the bridge driver, i.e. we cannot logically have fdb-&gt;dst == NULL under
any circumstance for FDB entries that are not local. However, the
extern_learn code path where FDB entries are managed by a user space
controller show that it is possible for the bridge kernel driver to
misinterpret the NUD flags of an entry transmitted by user space, and
end up having fdb-&gt;dst == NULL while not being a local entry. This is
invalid and should be rejected.

Before, the two commands listed above both crashed the kernel in this
check from br_switchdev_fdb_notify:

	struct net_device *dev = info.is_local ? br-&gt;dev : dst-&gt;dev;

info.is_local == false, dst == NULL.

After this patch, the invalid entry added by the first command is
rejected:

ip link add br0 type bridge &amp;&amp; bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn static; ip link del br0
Error: bridge: FDB entry towards bridge must be permanent.

and the valid entry added by the second command is properly treated as a
local address and does not crash br_switchdev_fdb_notify anymore:

ip link add br0 type bridge &amp;&amp; bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn permanent; ip link del br0

Fixes: eb100e0e24a2 ("net: bridge: allow to add externally learned entries from user-space")
Reported-by: syzbot+9ba1174359adba5a5b7c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
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/20210801231730.7493-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently it is possible to add broken extern_learn FDB entries to the
bridge in two ways:

1. Entries pointing towards the bridge device that are not local/permanent:

ip link add br0 type bridge
bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn static

2. Entries pointing towards the bridge device or towards a port that
are marked as local/permanent, however the bridge does not process the
'permanent' bit in any way, therefore they are recorded as though they
aren't permanent:

ip link add br0 type bridge
bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn permanent

Since commit 52e4bec15546 ("net: bridge: switchdev: treat local FDBs the
same as entries towards the bridge"), these incorrect FDB entries can
even trigger NULL pointer dereferences inside the kernel.

This is because that commit made the assumption that all FDB entries
that are not local/permanent have a valid destination port. For context,
local / permanent FDB entries either have fdb-&gt;dst == NULL, and these
point towards the bridge device and are therefore local and not to be
used for forwarding, or have fdb-&gt;dst == a net_bridge_port structure
(but are to be treated in the same way, i.e. not for forwarding).

That assumption _is_ correct as long as things are working correctly in
the bridge driver, i.e. we cannot logically have fdb-&gt;dst == NULL under
any circumstance for FDB entries that are not local. However, the
extern_learn code path where FDB entries are managed by a user space
controller show that it is possible for the bridge kernel driver to
misinterpret the NUD flags of an entry transmitted by user space, and
end up having fdb-&gt;dst == NULL while not being a local entry. This is
invalid and should be rejected.

Before, the two commands listed above both crashed the kernel in this
check from br_switchdev_fdb_notify:

	struct net_device *dev = info.is_local ? br-&gt;dev : dst-&gt;dev;

info.is_local == false, dst == NULL.

After this patch, the invalid entry added by the first command is
rejected:

ip link add br0 type bridge &amp;&amp; bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn static; ip link del br0
Error: bridge: FDB entry towards bridge must be permanent.

and the valid entry added by the second command is properly treated as a
local address and does not crash br_switchdev_fdb_notify anymore:

ip link add br0 type bridge &amp;&amp; bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn permanent; ip link del br0

Fixes: eb100e0e24a2 ("net: bridge: allow to add externally learned entries from user-space")
Reported-by: syzbot+9ba1174359adba5a5b7c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
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/20210801231730.7493-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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