Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 3/6] drivers: net: dsa: add locked fdb entry flag to drivers

[Vladimir Oltean]

Hi Hans,

On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 05:29:27PM +0200, Hans Schultz wrote:
> Ignore locked fdb entries coming in on all drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans Schultz <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

A good patch should have a reason for the change in the commit message.
This has no reason because there is no reason.

Think about it, you've said it yourself in patch 1:

| Only the kernel can set this FDB entry flag, while userspace can read
| the flag and remove it by replacing or deleting the FDB entry.

So if user space will never add locked FDB entries to the bridge,
then FDB entries with is_locked=true are never transported using
SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_DEVICE to drivers, and so, there is no reason at
all to pass is_locked to drivers, just for them to ignore something that
won't appear.

You just need this for SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_BRIDGE, so please keep it
only in those code paths, and remove it from net/dsa/slave.c as well.

>  drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c       | 5 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_priv.h         | 1 +
>  drivers/net/dsa/hirschmann/hellcreek.c | 5 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c         | 5 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/lantiq_gswip.c         | 5 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz9477.c    | 5 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c               | 5 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c       | 5 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c         | 5 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/qca8k.c                | 5 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c | 5 +++++
>  include/net/dsa.h                      | 1 +
>  net/dsa/switch.c                       | 4 ++--
>  13 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)