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authorVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>2021-02-12 16:15:54 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2021-02-13 02:08:04 +0100
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net: dsa: configure better brport flags when ports leave the bridge
For a DSA switch port operating in standalone mode, address learning doesn't make much sense since that is a bridge function. In fact, address learning even breaks setups such as this one: +---------------------------------------------+ | | | +-------------------+ | | | br0 | send receive | | +--------+-+--------+ +--------+ +--------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | swp0 | | swp1 | | swp2 | | swp3 | | | | | | | | | | | | +-+--------+-+--------+-+--------+-+--------+-+ | ^ | ^ | | | | | +-----------+ | | | +--------------------------------+ because if the switch has a single FDB (can offload a single bridge) then source address learning on swp3 can "steal" the source MAC address of swp2 from br0's FDB, because learning frames coming from swp2 will be done twice: first on the swp1 ingress port, second on the swp3 ingress port. So the hardware FDB will become out of sync with the software bridge, and when swp2 tries to send one more packet towards swp1, the ASIC will attempt to short-circuit the forwarding path and send it directly to swp3 (since that's the last port it learned that address on), which it obviously can't, because swp3 operates in standalone mode. So DSA drivers operating in standalone mode should still configure a list of bridge port flags even when they are standalone. Currently DSA attempts to call dsa_port_bridge_flags with 0, which disables egress flooding of unknown unicast and multicast, something which doesn't make much sense. For the switches that implement .port_egress_floods - b53 and mv88e6xxx, it probably doesn't matter too much either, since they can possibly inject traffic from the CPU into a standalone port, regardless of MAC DA, even if egress flooding is turned off for that port, but certainly not all DSA switches can do that - sja1105, for example, can't. So it makes sense to use a better common default there, such as "flood everything". It should also be noted that what DSA calls "dsa_port_bridge_flags()" is a degenerate name for just calling .port_egress_floods(), since nothing else is implemented - not learning, in particular. But disabling address learning, something that this driver is also coding up for, will be supported by individual drivers once .port_egress_floods is replaced with a more generic .port_bridge_flags. Previous attempts to code up this logic have been in the common bridge layer, but as pointed out by Ido Schimmel, there are corner cases that are missed when doing that: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210209151936.97382-5-olteanv@gmail.com/ So, at least for now, let's leave DSA in charge of setting port flags before and after the bridge join and leave. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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