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

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 11:06:24AM +0200, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2022-07-08 10:49, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong, but since the bridge can add locked entries, and
> the ensuring fdb update will create a SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_DEVICE, those
> entries
> should reach the driver. The policy to ignore those in the driver can be
> seen as either the right thing to do, or not yet implemented.
> 
> I remember Ido wrote at a point that the scheme they use is to trap various
> packets to the CPU and let the bridge add the locked entry, which I then
> understand is sent to the driver with a SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_DEVICE event.

Well, yes, but if I'm correct, the bridge right now can't create locked
FDB entries, so is_locked will always be false in the ADD_TO_DEVICE
direction.

When the possibility for it to be true will exist, _all_ switchdev
drivers will need to be updated to ignore that (mlxsw, cpss, ocelot,
rocker, prestera, etc etc), not just DSA. And you don't need to
propagate the is_locked flag to all individual DSA sub-drivers when none
care about is_locked in the ADD_TO_DEVICE direction, you can just ignore
within DSA until needed otherwise.

> > 
> > 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(-)