[PATCH net] net: dsa: refuse cross-chip mirroring operations

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Tue Oct 08 2024 - 05:43:55 EST


In case of a tc mirred action from one switch to another, the behavior
is not correct. We simply tell the source switch driver to program a
mirroring entry towards mirror->to_local_port = to_dp->index, but it is
not even guaranteed that the to_dp belongs to the same switch as dp.

For proper cross-chip support, we would need to go through the
cross-chip notifier layer in switch.c, program the entry on cascade
ports, and introduce new, explicit API for cross-chip mirroring, given
that intermediary switches should have introspection into the DSA tags
passed through the cascade port (and not just program a port mirror on
the entire cascade port). None of that exists today.

Reject what is not implemented so that user space is not misled into
thinking it works.

Fixes: f50f212749e8 ("net: dsa: Add plumbing for port mirroring")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
---
This is a resubmission of:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240913152915.2981126-5-vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx/
with rewritten commit message and targetting the 'net' tree, as
preparation for submitting the rest as 'net-next' material.

net/dsa/user.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/dsa/user.c b/net/dsa/user.c
index 74eda9b30608..64f660d2334b 100644
--- a/net/dsa/user.c
+++ b/net/dsa/user.c
@@ -1392,6 +1392,14 @@ dsa_user_add_cls_matchall_mirred(struct net_device *dev,
if (!dsa_user_dev_check(act->dev))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

+ to_dp = dsa_user_to_port(act->dev);
+
+ if (dp->ds != to_dp->ds) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
+ "Cross-chip mirroring not implemented");
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+
mall_tc_entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*mall_tc_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mall_tc_entry)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1399,9 +1407,6 @@ dsa_user_add_cls_matchall_mirred(struct net_device *dev,
mall_tc_entry->cookie = cls->cookie;
mall_tc_entry->type = DSA_PORT_MALL_MIRROR;
mirror = &mall_tc_entry->mirror;
-
- to_dp = dsa_user_to_port(act->dev);
-
mirror->to_local_port = to_dp->index;
mirror->ingress = ingress;

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