Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net: core: Notify on changes to dev->promiscuity.

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 02:55:18PM +0200, Ivan Vecera wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:44:14 +0200
> Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > When a port is added to a bridge, then the port gets in promisc mode.
> > But in our case the HW has bridge capabilities so it is not required
> > to set the port in promisc mode.
> > But if someone else requires the port to be in promisc mode (tcpdump
> > or any other application) then I would like to set the port in promisc
> > mode.
> > In previous emails Andrew came with the suggestion to look at
> > dev->promiscuity and check if the port is a bridge port. Using this
> > information I could see when to add the port in promisc mode. He also
> > suggested to add a new switchdev call(maybe I missunderstood him, or I
> > have done it at the wrong place) in case there are no callbacks in the
> > driver to get this information.
> 
> I would use the 1st suggestion.
> 
> for/in your driver:
> if (dev->promiscuity > 0) {
> 	if (dev->promiscuity == 1 && netif_is_bridge_port(dev)) {
> 		/* no need to set promisc mode because promiscuity
> 		 * was requested by bridge
> 		 */
> 		...
> 	} else {
> 		/* need to set promisc mode as someone else requested
> 		 * promiscuity
> 		 */
> 	}
> }

Hi Ivan

The problem with this is, the driver only gets called when promisc
goes from 0 to !0. So, the port is added to the bridge. Promisc goes
0->1, and the driver gets called. We can evaluate as you said above,
and leave the port filtering frames, not forwarding everything. When
tcpdump is started, the core does promisc 1->2, but does not call into
the driver. Also, currently sending a notification is not
unconditional.

What this patch adds is an unconditional call into the switchdev
driver so it can evaluate the condition above, with every change to
the promisc counter.

    Andrew