Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 04/11] net: dsa: configure proper brport flags when ports leave the bridge

[Florian Fainelli]

On 2/10/2021 1:14 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
> 
> 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@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
> 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@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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Florian