Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: Do not leave DSA master with NULL netdev_ops

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 23:40, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 5/4/2020 1:34 PM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > Hi Florian,
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> > On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 23:19, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> When ndo_get_phys_port_name() for the CPU port was added we introduced
> >> an early check for when the DSA master network device in
> >> dsa_master_ndo_setup() already implements ndo_get_phys_port_name(). When
> >> we perform the teardown operation in dsa_master_ndo_teardown() we would
> >> not be checking that cpu_dp->orig_ndo_ops was successfully allocated and
> >> non-NULL initialized.
> >>
> >> With network device drivers such as virtio_net, this leads to a NPD as
> >> soon as the DSA switch hanging off of it gets torn down because we are
> >> now assigning the virtio_net device's netdev_ops a NULL pointer.
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> >> Fixes: da7b9e9b00d4 ("net: dsa: Add ndo_get_phys_port_name() for CPU port")
> >> Reported-by: Allen Pais <allen.pais@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >
> > The fix makes complete sense.
> > But on another note, if we don't overlay an ndo_get_phys_port_name if
> > the master already has one, doesn't that render the entire mechanism
> > of having a reliable way for user space to determine the CPU port
> > number pointless?
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> For the CPU port I would consider ndo_get_phys_port_name() to be more
> best effort than an absolute need unlike the user facing ports, where
> this is necessary for a variety of actions (e.g.: determining
> queues/port numbers etc.) which is why there was no overlay being done
> in that case. There is not a good way to cascade the information other
> than do something like pX.Y and defining what the X and Y are, what do
> you think?
> --
> Florian

For the CPU/master port I am not actually sure who is the final
consumer of the ndo_get_phys_port_name, I thought it is simply
informational, with the observation that it may be unreliable in
transmitting that information over.
Speaking of which, if "informational" is the only purpose, could this
not be used?

devlink port | grep "flavour cpu"
pci/0000:00:00.5/4: type notset flavour cpu port 4
spi/spi2.0/4: type notset flavour cpu port 4
spi/spi2.1/4: type notset flavour cpu port 4

Thanks,
-Vladimir