linux.git/net/dsa/dsa.c, branch v6.7

net: dsa: Use conduit and user terms

2023-10-24T20:08:14+00:00

Use more inclusive terms throughout the DSA subsystem by moving away
from "master" which is replaced by "conduit" and "slave" which is
replaced by "user". No functional changes.

Acked-by: Rob Herring 
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023181729.1191071-2-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: avoid suspicious RCU usage for synced VLAN-aware MAC addresses

2023-06-27T16:37:41+00:00

When using the felix driver (the only one which supports UC filtering
and MC filtering) as a DSA master for a random other DSA switch, one can
see the following stack trace when the downstream switch ports join a
VLAN-aware bridge:

=============================
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
-----------------------------
net/8021q/vlan_core.c:238 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!

stack backtrace:
Workqueue: dsa_ordered dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work
Call trace:
 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x170/0x210
 vlan_for_each+0x8c/0x188
 dsa_slave_sync_uc+0x128/0x178
 __hw_addr_sync_dev+0x138/0x158
 dsa_slave_set_rx_mode+0x58/0x70
 __dev_set_rx_mode+0x88/0xa8
 dev_uc_add+0x74/0xa0
 dsa_port_bridge_host_fdb_add+0xec/0x180
 dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work+0x7c/0x1c8
 process_one_work+0x290/0x568

What it's saying is that vlan_for_each() expects rtnl_lock() context and
it's not getting it, when it's called from the DSA master's ndo_set_rx_mode().

The caller of that - dsa_slave_set_rx_mode() - is the slave DSA
interface's dsa_port_bridge_host_fdb_add() which comes from the deferred
dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work().

We went to great lengths to avoid the rtnl_lock() context in that call
path in commit 0faf890fc519 ("net: dsa: drop rtnl_lock from
dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work"), and calling rtnl_lock() is simply not
an option due to the possibility of deadlocking when calling
dsa_flush_workqueue() from the call paths that do hold rtnl_lock() -
basically all of them.

So, when the DSA master calls vlan_for_each() from its ndo_set_rx_mode(),
the state of the 8021q driver on this device is really not protected
from concurrent access by anything.

Looking at net/8021q/, I don't think that vlan_info->vid_list was
particularly designed with RCU traversal in mind, so introducing an RCU
read-side form of vlan_for_each() - vlan_for_each_rcu() - won't be so
easy, and it also wouldn't be exactly what we need anyway.

In general I believe that the solution isn't in net/8021q/ anyway;
vlan_for_each() is not cut out for this task. DSA doesn't need rtnl_lock()
to be held per se - since it's not a netdev state change that we're
blocking, but rather, just concurrent additions/removals to a VLAN list.
We don't even need sleepable context - the callback of vlan_for_each()
just schedules deferred work.

The proposed escape is to remove the dependency on vlan_for_each() and
to open-code a non-sleepable, rtnl-free alternative to that, based on
copies of the VLAN list modified from .ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid() and
.ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid().

Fixes: 64fdc5f341db ("net: dsa: sync unicast and multicast addresses for VLAN filters too")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230626154402.3154454-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: introduce preferred_default_local_cpu_port and use on MT7530

2023-06-20T08:40:26+00:00

Since the introduction of the OF bindings, DSA has always had a policy that
in case multiple CPU ports are present in the device tree, the numerically
smallest one is always chosen.

The MT7530 switch family, except the switch on the MT7988 SoC, has 2 CPU
ports, 5 and 6, where port 6 is preferable on the MT7531BE switch because
it has higher bandwidth.

The MT7530 driver developers had 3 options:
- to modify DSA when the MT7531 switch support was introduced, such as to
  prefer the better port
- to declare both CPU ports in device trees as CPU ports, and live with the
  sub-optimal performance resulting from not preferring the better port
- to declare just port 6 in the device tree as a CPU port

Of course they chose the path of least resistance (3rd option), kicking the
can down the road. The hardware description in the device tree is supposed
to be stable - developers are not supposed to adopt the strategy of
piecemeal hardware description, where the device tree is updated in
lockstep with the features that the kernel currently supports.

Now, as a result of the fact that they did that, any attempts to modify the
device tree and describe both CPU ports as CPU ports would make DSA change
its default selection from port 6 to 5, effectively resulting in a
performance degradation visible to users with the MT7531BE switch as can be
seen below.

Without preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   374 MBytes   157 Mbits/sec  734    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   373 MBytes   156 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   778 Mbits/sec    0    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   777 Mbits/sec    receiver

With preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   856 Mbits/sec  273    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   855 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.72 GBytes   737 Mbits/sec   15    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.71 GBytes   736 Mbits/sec    receiver

Using one port for WAN and the other ports for LAN is a very popular use
case which is what this test emulates.

As such, this change proposes that we retroactively modify stable kernels
(which don't support the modification of the CPU port assignments, so as to
let user space fix the problem and restore the throughput) to keep the
mt7530 driver preferring port 6 even with device trees where the hardware
is more fully described.

Fixes: c288575f7810 ("net: dsa: mt7530: Add the support of MT7531 switch")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL 
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: dsa: replace NETDEV_PRE_CHANGE_HWTSTAMP notifier with a stub

2023-04-09T14:35:49+00:00

There was a sort of rush surrounding commit 88c0a6b503b7 ("net: create a
netdev notifier for DSA to reject PTP on DSA master"), due to a desire
to convert DSA's attempt to deny TX timestamping on a DSA master to
something that doesn't block the kernel-wide API conversion from
ndo_eth_ioctl() to ndo_hwtstamp_set().

What was required was a mechanism that did not depend on ndo_eth_ioctl(),
and what was provided was a mechanism that did not depend on
ndo_eth_ioctl(), while at the same time introducing something that
wasn't absolutely necessary - a new netdev notifier.

There have been objections from Jakub Kicinski that using notifiers in
general when they are not absolutely necessary creates complications to
the control flow and difficulties to maintainers who look at the code.
So there is a desire to not use notifiers.

In addition to that, the notifier chain gets called even if there is no
DSA in the system and no one is interested in applying any restriction.

Take the model of udp_tunnel_nic_ops and introduce a stub mechanism,
through which net/core/dev_ioctl.c can call into DSA even when
CONFIG_NET_DSA=m.

Compared to the code that existed prior to the notifier conversion, aka
what was added in commits:
- 4cfab3566710 ("net: dsa: Add wrappers for overloaded ndo_ops")
- 3369afba1e46 ("net: Call into DSA netdevice_ops wrappers")

this is different because we are not overloading any struct
net_device_ops of the DSA master anymore, but rather, we are exposing a
rather specific functionality which is orthogonal to which API is used
to enable it - ndo_eth_ioctl() or ndo_hwtstamp_set().

Also, what is similar is that both approaches use function pointers to
get from built-in code to DSA.

There is no point in replicating the function pointers towards
__dsa_master_hwtstamp_validate() once for every CPU port (dev->dsa_ptr).
Instead, it is sufficient to introduce a singleton struct dsa_stubs,
built into the kernel, which contains a single function pointer to
__dsa_master_hwtstamp_validate().

I find this approach preferable to what we had originally, because
dev->dsa_ptr->netdev_ops->ndo_do_ioctl() used to require going through
struct dsa_port (dev->dsa_ptr), and so, this was incompatible with any
attempts to add any data encapsulation and hide DSA data structures from
the outside world.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230403083019.120b72fd@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: dsa: kill off dsa_priv.h

2022-11-23T04:41:54+00:00

The last remnants in dsa_priv.h are a netlink-related definition for
which we create a new header, and DSA_MAX_NUM_OFFLOADING_BRIDGES which
is only used from dsa.c, so move it there.

Some inclusions need to be adjusted now that we no longer have headers
included transitively from dsa_priv.h.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: rename dsa2.c back into dsa.c and create its header

2022-11-23T04:41:53+00:00

The previous change moved the code into the larger file (dsa2.c) to
minimize the delta. Rename that now to dsa.c, and create dsa.h, where
all related definitions from dsa_priv.h go.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: merge dsa.c into dsa2.c

2022-11-23T04:41:52+00:00

There is no longer a meaningful distinction between what goes into
dsa2.c and what goes into dsa.c. Merge the 2 into a single file.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: move tagging protocol code to tag.{c,h}

2022-11-23T04:41:50+00:00

It would be nice if tagging protocol drivers could include just the
header they need, since they are (mostly) data path and isolated from
most of the other DSA core code does.

Create a tag.c and a tag.h file which are meant to support tagging
protocol drivers.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: move headers exported by slave.c to slave.h

2022-11-23T04:41:49+00:00

Minimize the use of the bloated dsa_priv.h by moving the prototypes
exported by slave.c to their own header file.

This is just approximate to get the code structure right. There are some
interdependencies with static inline code left in dsa_priv.h, so leave
slave.h included from there for now.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: move bulk of devlink code to devlink.{c,h}

2022-11-23T04:41:46+00:00

dsa.c and dsa2.c are bloated with too much off-topic code. Identify all
code related to devlink and move it to a new devlink.c file.

Steer clear of the dsa_priv.h dumping ground antipattern and create a
dedicated devlink.h for it, which will be included only by the C files
which need it. Usage of dsa_priv.h will be minimized in later patches.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean 
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski