Re: [PATCH net-next] net/sched: cls_flower: fix resetting of ether proto mask

[Boris Sukholitko]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:51:02PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 07:41:55PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 07:14:35PM +0300, Vadym Kochan wrote:

[snip excellent problem analysis]

> So maybe it is the flow dissector we need to fix, to make it give us an
> additional pure EtherType if asked for, make tc-flower use that
> dissector key instead, and then revert Jamal's user space patch, and we
> should all install our tc filters as:
> 
> tc filter add dev sw1p0 ingress handle 11 protocol all flower eth_type 0x8864 skip_hw action drop
> 
> ?

I like this solution. To be more explicit, the plan becomes:

1. Add FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_ETH_TYPE and struct flow_dissector_key_eth_type.
2. Have skb flow dissector use it.
3. Userspace does not set TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ETH_TYPE automagically
   anymore. cls_flower takes basic.n_proto from struct tcf_proto.
4. Add eth_type to the userspace and use it to set TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ETH_TYPE
5. Existence of TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ETH_TYPE triggers new eth_type dissector.

IMHO this neatly solves non-vlan protocol match case.

What should we do with the VLANs then? Should we have vlan_pure_ethtype
and cvlan_pure_ethtype as additional keys?

> 
> Or maybe just be like you, say I don't care about any of that, I just
> want it to behave as before, and simply revert Boris's patch. Ok, maybe

FTR I fully support reverting the patch. Please accept my apologies for
breaking the HW offload and big thanks to Vadym for finding it.

I will send the revert shortly.

Thanks,
Boris.

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