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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>net: dsa: pass extack to .port_bridge_join driver methods</title>
<updated>2022-02-27T11:06:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
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<published>2022-02-25T09:22:23+00:00</published>
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As FDB isolation cannot be enforced between VLAN-aware bridges in lack
of hardware assistance like extra FID bits, it seems plausible that many
DSA switches cannot do it. Therefore, they need to reject configurations
with multiple VLAN-aware bridges from the two code paths that can
transition towards that state:

- joining a VLAN-aware bridge
- toggling VLAN awareness on an existing bridge

The .port_vlan_filtering method already propagates the netlink extack to
the driver, let's propagate it from .port_bridge_join too, to make sure
that the driver can use the same function for both.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As FDB isolation cannot be enforced between VLAN-aware bridges in lack
of hardware assistance like extra FID bits, it seems plausible that many
DSA switches cannot do it. Therefore, they need to reject configurations
with multiple VLAN-aware bridges from the two code paths that can
transition towards that state:

- joining a VLAN-aware bridge
- toggling VLAN awareness on an existing bridge

The .port_vlan_filtering method already propagates the netlink extack to
the driver, let's propagate it from .port_bridge_join too, to make sure
that the driver can use the same function for both.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: request drivers to perform FDB isolation</title>
<updated>2022-02-27T11:06:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-25T09:22:22+00:00</published>
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For DSA, to encourage drivers to perform FDB isolation simply means to
track which bridge does each FDB and MDB entry belong to. It then
becomes the driver responsibility to use something that makes the FDB
entry from one bridge not match the FDB lookup of ports from other
bridges.

The top-level functions where the bridge is determined are:
- dsa_port_fdb_{add,del}
- dsa_port_host_fdb_{add,del}
- dsa_port_mdb_{add,del}
- dsa_port_host_mdb_{add,del}

aka the pre-crosschip-notifier functions.

Changing the API to pass a reference to a bridge is not superfluous, and
looking at the passed bridge argument is not the same as having the
driver look at dsa_to_port(ds, port)-&gt;bridge from the -&gt;port_fdb_add()
method.

DSA installs FDB and MDB entries on shared (CPU and DSA) ports as well,
and those do not have any dp-&gt;bridge information to retrieve, because
they are not in any bridge - they are merely the pipes that serve the
user ports that are in one or multiple bridges.

The struct dsa_bridge associated with each FDB/MDB entry is encapsulated
in a larger "struct dsa_db" database. Although only databases associated
to bridges are notified for now, this API will be the starting point for
implementing IFF_UNICAST_FLT in DSA. There, the idea is to install FDB
entries on the CPU port which belong to the corresponding user port's
port database. These are supposed to match only when the port is
standalone.

It is better to introduce the API in its expected final form than to
introduce it for bridges first, then to have to change drivers which may
have made one or more assumptions.

Drivers can use the provided bridge.num, but they can also use a
different numbering scheme that is more convenient.

DSA must perform refcounting on the CPU and DSA ports by also taking
into account the bridge number. So if two bridges request the same local
address, DSA must notify the driver twice, once for each bridge.

In fact, if the driver supports FDB isolation, DSA must perform
refcounting per bridge, but if the driver doesn't, DSA must refcount
host addresses across all bridges, otherwise it would be telling the
driver to delete an FDB entry for a bridge and the driver would delete
it for all bridges. So introduce a bool fdb_isolation in drivers which
would make all bridge databases passed to the cross-chip notifier have
the same number (0). This makes dsa_mac_addr_find() -&gt; dsa_db_equal()
say that all bridge databases are the same database - which is
essentially the legacy behavior.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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For DSA, to encourage drivers to perform FDB isolation simply means to
track which bridge does each FDB and MDB entry belong to. It then
becomes the driver responsibility to use something that makes the FDB
entry from one bridge not match the FDB lookup of ports from other
bridges.

The top-level functions where the bridge is determined are:
- dsa_port_fdb_{add,del}
- dsa_port_host_fdb_{add,del}
- dsa_port_mdb_{add,del}
- dsa_port_host_mdb_{add,del}

aka the pre-crosschip-notifier functions.

Changing the API to pass a reference to a bridge is not superfluous, and
looking at the passed bridge argument is not the same as having the
driver look at dsa_to_port(ds, port)-&gt;bridge from the -&gt;port_fdb_add()
method.

DSA installs FDB and MDB entries on shared (CPU and DSA) ports as well,
and those do not have any dp-&gt;bridge information to retrieve, because
they are not in any bridge - they are merely the pipes that serve the
user ports that are in one or multiple bridges.

The struct dsa_bridge associated with each FDB/MDB entry is encapsulated
in a larger "struct dsa_db" database. Although only databases associated
to bridges are notified for now, this API will be the starting point for
implementing IFF_UNICAST_FLT in DSA. There, the idea is to install FDB
entries on the CPU port which belong to the corresponding user port's
port database. These are supposed to match only when the port is
standalone.

It is better to introduce the API in its expected final form than to
introduce it for bridges first, then to have to change drivers which may
have made one or more assumptions.

Drivers can use the provided bridge.num, but they can also use a
different numbering scheme that is more convenient.

DSA must perform refcounting on the CPU and DSA ports by also taking
into account the bridge number. So if two bridges request the same local
address, DSA must notify the driver twice, once for each bridge.

In fact, if the driver supports FDB isolation, DSA must perform
refcounting per bridge, but if the driver doesn't, DSA must refcount
host addresses across all bridges, otherwise it would be telling the
driver to delete an FDB entry for a bridge and the driver would delete
it for all bridges. So introduce a bool fdb_isolation in drivers which
would make all bridge databases passed to the cross-chip notifier have
the same number (0). This makes dsa_mac_addr_find() -&gt; dsa_db_equal()
say that all bridge databases are the same database - which is
essentially the legacy behavior.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: lan9303: add VLAN IDs to master device</title>
<updated>2022-02-17T17:32:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mans Rullgard</name>
<email>mans@mansr.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-16T20:48:18+00:00</published>
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If the master device does VLAN filtering, the IDs used by the switch
must be added for any frames to be received.  Do this in the
port_enable() function, and remove them in port_disable().

Fixes: a1292595e006 ("net: dsa: add new DSA switch driver for the SMSC-LAN9303")
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard &lt;mans@mansr.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216204818.28746-1-mans@mansr.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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If the master device does VLAN filtering, the IDs used by the switch
must be added for any frames to be received.  Do this in the
port_enable() function, and remove them in port_disable().

Fixes: a1292595e006 ("net: dsa: add new DSA switch driver for the SMSC-LAN9303")
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard &lt;mans@mansr.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216204818.28746-1-mans@mansr.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: lan9303: fix reset on probe</title>
<updated>2022-02-11T22:22:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mans Rullgard</name>
<email>mans@mansr.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-09T14:54:54+00:00</published>
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The reset input to the LAN9303 chip is active low, and devicetree
gpio handles reflect this.  Therefore, the gpio should be requested
with an initial state of high in order for the reset signal to be
asserted.  Other uses of the gpio already use the correct polarity.

Fixes: a1292595e006 ("net: dsa: add new DSA switch driver for the SMSC-LAN9303")
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard &lt;mans@mansr.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fianelil &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220209145454.19749-1-mans@mansr.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The reset input to the LAN9303 chip is active low, and devicetree
gpio handles reflect this.  Therefore, the gpio should be requested
with an initial state of high in order for the reset signal to be
asserted.  Other uses of the gpio already use the correct polarity.

Fixes: a1292595e006 ("net: dsa: add new DSA switch driver for the SMSC-LAN9303")
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard &lt;mans@mansr.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fianelil &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220209145454.19749-1-mans@mansr.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: add a "tx_fwd_offload" argument to -&gt;port_bridge_join</title>
<updated>2021-12-08T22:31:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-06T16:57:57+00:00</published>
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This is a preparation patch for the removal of the DSA switch methods
-&gt;port_bridge_tx_fwd_offload() and -&gt;port_bridge_tx_fwd_unoffload().
The plan is for the switch to report whether it offloads TX forwarding
directly as a response to the -&gt;port_bridge_join() method.

This change deals with the noisy portion of converting all existing
function prototypes to take this new boolean pointer argument.
The bool is placed in the cross-chip notifier structure for bridge join,
and a reference to it is provided to drivers. In the next change, DSA
will then actually look at this value instead of calling
-&gt;port_bridge_tx_fwd_offload().

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alvin Šipraga &lt;alsi@bang-olufsen.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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This is a preparation patch for the removal of the DSA switch methods
-&gt;port_bridge_tx_fwd_offload() and -&gt;port_bridge_tx_fwd_unoffload().
The plan is for the switch to report whether it offloads TX forwarding
directly as a response to the -&gt;port_bridge_join() method.

This change deals with the noisy portion of converting all existing
function prototypes to take this new boolean pointer argument.
The bool is placed in the cross-chip notifier structure for bridge join,
and a reference to it is provided to drivers. In the next change, DSA
will then actually look at this value instead of calling
-&gt;port_bridge_tx_fwd_offload().

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alvin Šipraga &lt;alsi@bang-olufsen.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: keep the bridge_dev and bridge_num as part of the same structure</title>
<updated>2021-12-08T22:31:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-06T16:57:56+00:00</published>
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The main desire behind this is to provide coherent bridge information to
the fast path without locking.

For example, right now we set dp-&gt;bridge_dev and dp-&gt;bridge_num from
separate code paths, it is theoretically possible for a packet
transmission to read these two port properties consecutively and find a
bridge number which does not correspond with the bridge device.

Another desire is to start passing more complex bridge information to
dsa_switch_ops functions. For example, with FDB isolation, it is
expected that drivers will need to be passed the bridge which requested
an FDB/MDB entry to be offloaded, and along with that bridge_dev, the
associated bridge_num should be passed too, in case the driver might
want to implement an isolation scheme based on that number.

We already pass the {bridge_dev, bridge_num} pair to the TX forwarding
offload switch API, however we'd like to remove that and squash it into
the basic bridge join/leave API. So that means we need to pass this
pair to the bridge join/leave API.

During dsa_port_bridge_leave, first we unset dp-&gt;bridge_dev, then we
call the driver's .port_bridge_leave with what used to be our
dp-&gt;bridge_dev, but provided as an argument.

When bridge_dev and bridge_num get folded into a single structure, we
need to preserve this behavior in dsa_port_bridge_leave: we need a copy
of what used to be in dp-&gt;bridge.

Switch drivers check bridge membership by comparing dp-&gt;bridge_dev with
the provided bridge_dev, but now, if we provide the struct dsa_bridge as
a pointer, they cannot keep comparing dp-&gt;bridge to the provided
pointer, since this only points to an on-stack copy. To make this
obvious and prevent driver writers from forgetting and doing stupid
things, in this new API, the struct dsa_bridge is provided as a full
structure (not very large, contains an int and a pointer) instead of a
pointer. An explicit comparison function needs to be used to determine
bridge membership: dsa_port_offloads_bridge().

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alvin Šipraga &lt;alsi@bang-olufsen.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The main desire behind this is to provide coherent bridge information to
the fast path without locking.

For example, right now we set dp-&gt;bridge_dev and dp-&gt;bridge_num from
separate code paths, it is theoretically possible for a packet
transmission to read these two port properties consecutively and find a
bridge number which does not correspond with the bridge device.

Another desire is to start passing more complex bridge information to
dsa_switch_ops functions. For example, with FDB isolation, it is
expected that drivers will need to be passed the bridge which requested
an FDB/MDB entry to be offloaded, and along with that bridge_dev, the
associated bridge_num should be passed too, in case the driver might
want to implement an isolation scheme based on that number.

We already pass the {bridge_dev, bridge_num} pair to the TX forwarding
offload switch API, however we'd like to remove that and squash it into
the basic bridge join/leave API. So that means we need to pass this
pair to the bridge join/leave API.

During dsa_port_bridge_leave, first we unset dp-&gt;bridge_dev, then we
call the driver's .port_bridge_leave with what used to be our
dp-&gt;bridge_dev, but provided as an argument.

When bridge_dev and bridge_num get folded into a single structure, we
need to preserve this behavior in dsa_port_bridge_leave: we need a copy
of what used to be in dp-&gt;bridge.

Switch drivers check bridge membership by comparing dp-&gt;bridge_dev with
the provided bridge_dev, but now, if we provide the struct dsa_bridge as
a pointer, they cannot keep comparing dp-&gt;bridge to the provided
pointer, since this only points to an on-stack copy. To make this
obvious and prevent driver writers from forgetting and doing stupid
things, in this new API, the struct dsa_bridge is provided as a full
structure (not very large, contains an int and a pointer) instead of a
pointer. An explicit comparison function needs to be used to determine
bridge membership: dsa_port_offloads_bridge().

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alvin Šipraga &lt;alsi@bang-olufsen.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: hide dp-&gt;bridge_dev and dp-&gt;bridge_num in drivers behind helpers</title>
<updated>2021-12-08T22:31:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-06T16:57:53+00:00</published>
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The location of the bridge device pointer and number is going to change.
It is not going to be kept individually per port, but in a common
structure allocated dynamically and which will have lockdep validation.

Use the helpers to access these elements so that we have a migration
path to the new organization.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The location of the bridge device pointer and number is going to change.
It is not going to be kept individually per port, but in a common
structure allocated dynamically and which will have lockdep validation.

Use the helpers to access these elements so that we have a migration
path to the new organization.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: be compatible with masters which unregister on shutdown</title>
<updated>2021-09-19T11:08:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-17T13:34:33+00:00</published>
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Lino reports that on his system with bcmgenet as DSA master and KSZ9897
as a switch, rebooting or shutting down never works properly.

What does the bcmgenet driver have special to trigger this, that other
DSA masters do not? It has an implementation of -&gt;shutdown which simply
calls its -&gt;remove implementation. Otherwise said, it unregisters its
network interface on shutdown.

This message can be seen in a loop, and it hangs the reboot process there:

unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 3

So why 3?

A usage count of 1 is normal for a registered network interface, and any
virtual interface which links itself as an upper of that will increment
it via dev_hold. In the case of DSA, this is the call path:

dsa_slave_create
-&gt; netdev_upper_dev_link
   -&gt; __netdev_upper_dev_link
      -&gt; __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert
         -&gt; dev_hold

So a DSA switch with 3 interfaces will result in a usage count elevated
by two, and netdev_wait_allrefs will wait until they have gone away.

Other stacked interfaces, like VLAN, watch NETDEV_UNREGISTER events and
delete themselves, but DSA cannot just vanish and go poof, at most it
can unbind itself from the switch devices, but that must happen strictly
earlier compared to when the DSA master unregisters its net_device, so
reacting on the NETDEV_UNREGISTER event is way too late.

It seems that it is a pretty established pattern to have a driver's
-&gt;shutdown hook redirect to its -&gt;remove hook, so the same code is
executed regardless of whether the driver is unbound from the device, or
the system is just shutting down. As Florian puts it, it is quite a big
hammer for bcmgenet to unregister its net_device during shutdown, but
having a common code path with the driver unbind helps ensure it is well
tested.

So DSA, for better or for worse, has to live with that and engage in an
arms race of implementing the -&gt;shutdown hook too, from all individual
drivers, and do something sane when paired with masters that unregister
their net_device there. The only sane thing to do, of course, is to
unlink from the master.

However, complications arise really quickly.

The pattern of redirecting -&gt;shutdown to -&gt;remove is not unique to
bcmgenet or even to net_device drivers. In fact, SPI controllers do it
too (see dspi_shutdown -&gt; dspi_remove), and presumably, I2C controllers
and MDIO controllers do it too (this is something I have not researched
too deeply, but even if this is not the case today, it is certainly
plausible to happen in the future, and must be taken into consideration).

Since DSA switches might be SPI devices, I2C devices, MDIO devices, the
insane implication is that for the exact same DSA switch device, we
might have both -&gt;shutdown and -&gt;remove getting called.

So we need to do something with that insane environment. The pattern
I've come up with is "if this, then not that", so if either -&gt;shutdown
or -&gt;remove gets called, we set the device's drvdata to NULL, and in the
other hook, we check whether the drvdata is NULL and just do nothing.
This is probably not necessary for platform devices, just for devices on
buses, but I would really insist for consistency among drivers, because
when code is copy-pasted, it is not always copy-pasted from the best
sources.

So depending on whether the DSA switch's -&gt;remove or -&gt;shutdown will get
called first, we cannot really guarantee even for the same driver if
rebooting will result in the same code path on all platforms. But
nonetheless, we need to do something minimally reasonable on -&gt;shutdown
too to fix the bug. Of course, the -&gt;remove will do more (a full
teardown of the tree, with all data structures freed, and this is why
the bug was not caught for so long). The new -&gt;shutdown method is kept
separate from dsa_unregister_switch not because we couldn't have
unregistered the switch, but simply in the interest of doing something
quick and to the point.

The big question is: does the DSA switch's -&gt;shutdown get called earlier
than the DSA master's -&gt;shutdown? If not, there is still a risk that we
might still trigger the WARN_ON in unregister_netdevice that says we are
attempting to unregister a net_device which has uppers. That's no good.
Although the reference to the master net_device won't physically go away
even if DSA's -&gt;shutdown comes afterwards, remember we have a dev_hold
on it.

The answer to that question lies in this comment above device_link_add:

 * A side effect of the link creation is re-ordering of dpm_list and the
 * devices_kset list by moving the consumer device and all devices depending
 * on it to the ends of these lists (that does not happen to devices that have
 * not been registered when this function is called).

so the fact that DSA uses device_link_add towards its master is not
exactly for nothing. device_shutdown() walks devices_kset from the back,
so this is our guarantee that DSA's shutdown happens before the master's
shutdown.

Fixes: 2f1e8ea726e9 ("net: dsa: link interfaces with the DSA master to get rid of lockdep warnings")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210909095324.12978-1-LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de/
Reported-by: Lino Sanfilippo &lt;LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Lino reports that on his system with bcmgenet as DSA master and KSZ9897
as a switch, rebooting or shutting down never works properly.

What does the bcmgenet driver have special to trigger this, that other
DSA masters do not? It has an implementation of -&gt;shutdown which simply
calls its -&gt;remove implementation. Otherwise said, it unregisters its
network interface on shutdown.

This message can be seen in a loop, and it hangs the reboot process there:

unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 3

So why 3?

A usage count of 1 is normal for a registered network interface, and any
virtual interface which links itself as an upper of that will increment
it via dev_hold. In the case of DSA, this is the call path:

dsa_slave_create
-&gt; netdev_upper_dev_link
   -&gt; __netdev_upper_dev_link
      -&gt; __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert
         -&gt; dev_hold

So a DSA switch with 3 interfaces will result in a usage count elevated
by two, and netdev_wait_allrefs will wait until they have gone away.

Other stacked interfaces, like VLAN, watch NETDEV_UNREGISTER events and
delete themselves, but DSA cannot just vanish and go poof, at most it
can unbind itself from the switch devices, but that must happen strictly
earlier compared to when the DSA master unregisters its net_device, so
reacting on the NETDEV_UNREGISTER event is way too late.

It seems that it is a pretty established pattern to have a driver's
-&gt;shutdown hook redirect to its -&gt;remove hook, so the same code is
executed regardless of whether the driver is unbound from the device, or
the system is just shutting down. As Florian puts it, it is quite a big
hammer for bcmgenet to unregister its net_device during shutdown, but
having a common code path with the driver unbind helps ensure it is well
tested.

So DSA, for better or for worse, has to live with that and engage in an
arms race of implementing the -&gt;shutdown hook too, from all individual
drivers, and do something sane when paired with masters that unregister
their net_device there. The only sane thing to do, of course, is to
unlink from the master.

However, complications arise really quickly.

The pattern of redirecting -&gt;shutdown to -&gt;remove is not unique to
bcmgenet or even to net_device drivers. In fact, SPI controllers do it
too (see dspi_shutdown -&gt; dspi_remove), and presumably, I2C controllers
and MDIO controllers do it too (this is something I have not researched
too deeply, but even if this is not the case today, it is certainly
plausible to happen in the future, and must be taken into consideration).

Since DSA switches might be SPI devices, I2C devices, MDIO devices, the
insane implication is that for the exact same DSA switch device, we
might have both -&gt;shutdown and -&gt;remove getting called.

So we need to do something with that insane environment. The pattern
I've come up with is "if this, then not that", so if either -&gt;shutdown
or -&gt;remove gets called, we set the device's drvdata to NULL, and in the
other hook, we check whether the drvdata is NULL and just do nothing.
This is probably not necessary for platform devices, just for devices on
buses, but I would really insist for consistency among drivers, because
when code is copy-pasted, it is not always copy-pasted from the best
sources.

So depending on whether the DSA switch's -&gt;remove or -&gt;shutdown will get
called first, we cannot really guarantee even for the same driver if
rebooting will result in the same code path on all platforms. But
nonetheless, we need to do something minimally reasonable on -&gt;shutdown
too to fix the bug. Of course, the -&gt;remove will do more (a full
teardown of the tree, with all data structures freed, and this is why
the bug was not caught for so long). The new -&gt;shutdown method is kept
separate from dsa_unregister_switch not because we couldn't have
unregistered the switch, but simply in the interest of doing something
quick and to the point.

The big question is: does the DSA switch's -&gt;shutdown get called earlier
than the DSA master's -&gt;shutdown? If not, there is still a risk that we
might still trigger the WARN_ON in unregister_netdevice that says we are
attempting to unregister a net_device which has uppers. That's no good.
Although the reference to the master net_device won't physically go away
even if DSA's -&gt;shutdown comes afterwards, remember we have a dev_hold
on it.

The answer to that question lies in this comment above device_link_add:

 * A side effect of the link creation is re-ordering of dpm_list and the
 * devices_kset list by moving the consumer device and all devices depending
 * on it to the ends of these lists (that does not happen to devices that have
 * not been registered when this function is called).

so the fact that DSA uses device_link_add towards its master is not
exactly for nothing. device_shutdown() walks devices_kset from the back,
so this is our guarantee that DSA's shutdown happens before the master's
shutdown.

Fixes: 2f1e8ea726e9 ("net: dsa: link interfaces with the DSA master to get rid of lockdep warnings")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210909095324.12978-1-LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de/
Reported-by: Lino Sanfilippo &lt;LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: lan9303: fix broken backpressure in .port_fdb_dump</title>
<updated>2021-08-10T12:17:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-10T11:19:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ada2fee185d8145afb89056558bb59545b9dbdd0'/>
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rtnl_fdb_dump() has logic to split a dump of PF_BRIDGE neighbors into
multiple netlink skbs if the buffer provided by user space is too small
(one buffer will typically handle a few hundred FDB entries).

When the current buffer becomes full, nlmsg_put() in
dsa_slave_port_fdb_do_dump() returns -EMSGSIZE and DSA saves the index
of the last dumped FDB entry, returns to rtnl_fdb_dump() up to that
point, and then the dump resumes on the same port with a new skb, and
FDB entries up to the saved index are simply skipped.

Since dsa_slave_port_fdb_do_dump() is pointed to by the "cb" passed to
drivers, then drivers must check for the -EMSGSIZE error code returned
by it. Otherwise, when a netlink skb becomes full, DSA will no longer
save newly dumped FDB entries to it, but the driver will continue
dumping. So FDB entries will be missing from the dump.

Fix the broken backpressure by propagating the "cb" return code and
allow rtnl_fdb_dump() to restart the FDB dump with a new skb.

Fixes: ab335349b852 ("net: dsa: lan9303: Add port_fast_age and port_fdb_dump methods")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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rtnl_fdb_dump() has logic to split a dump of PF_BRIDGE neighbors into
multiple netlink skbs if the buffer provided by user space is too small
(one buffer will typically handle a few hundred FDB entries).

When the current buffer becomes full, nlmsg_put() in
dsa_slave_port_fdb_do_dump() returns -EMSGSIZE and DSA saves the index
of the last dumped FDB entry, returns to rtnl_fdb_dump() up to that
point, and then the dump resumes on the same port with a new skb, and
FDB entries up to the saved index are simply skipped.

Since dsa_slave_port_fdb_do_dump() is pointed to by the "cb" passed to
drivers, then drivers must check for the -EMSGSIZE error code returned
by it. Otherwise, when a netlink skb becomes full, DSA will no longer
save newly dumped FDB entries to it, but the driver will continue
dumping. So FDB entries will be missing from the dump.

Fix the broken backpressure by propagating the "cb" return code and
allow rtnl_fdb_dump() to restart the FDB dump with a new skb.

Fixes: ab335349b852 ("net: dsa: lan9303: Add port_fast_age and port_fdb_dump methods")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: remove the transactional logic from MDB entries</title>
<updated>2021-01-12T00:00:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-09T00:01:52+00:00</published>
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For many drivers, the .port_mdb_prepare callback was not a good opportunity
to avoid any error condition, and they would suppress errors found during
the actual commit phase.

Where a logical separation between the prepare and the commit phase
existed, the function that used to implement the .port_mdb_prepare
callback still exists, but now it is called directly from .port_mdb_add,
which was modified to return an int code.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kurt Kanzenbach &lt;kurt@linutronix.de&gt; # hellcreek
Reviewed-by: Linus Wallei &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt; # RTL8366
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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For many drivers, the .port_mdb_prepare callback was not a good opportunity
to avoid any error condition, and they would suppress errors found during
the actual commit phase.

Where a logical separation between the prepare and the commit phase
existed, the function that used to implement the .port_mdb_prepare
callback still exists, but now it is called directly from .port_mdb_add,
which was modified to return an int code.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kurt Kanzenbach &lt;kurt@linutronix.de&gt; # hellcreek
Reviewed-by: Linus Wallei &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt; # RTL8366
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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