The NULL deref happens when br_handle_frame is called between these
2 lines of del_nbp:
dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_BRIDGE_PORT;
/* --> br_handle_frame is called at this time */
netdev_rx_handler_unregister(dev);
In br_handle_frame the return of br_port_get_rcu(dev) is dereferenced
without check but br_port_get_rcu(dev) returns NULL if:
!(dev->priv_flags & IFF_BRIDGE_PORT)
Eric Dumazet pointed out the testing of IFF_BRIDGE_PORT is not necessary
here since we're in rcu_read_lock and we have synchronize_net() in
netdev_rx_handler_unregister. So remove the testing of IFF_BRIDGE_PORT
and by the previous patch, make sure br_port_get_rcu is called in
bridging code.
Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <zhiguohong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
current br_port_get_rcu is problematic in bridging path
(NULL deref). Change these calls in netlink path first.
Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <zhiguohong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
At some point limits were added to forward_delay. However, the
limits are only enforced when STP is enabled. This created a
scenario where you could have a value outside the allowed range
while STP is disabled, which then stuck around even after STP
is enabled.
This patch fixes this by clamping the value when we enable STP.
I had to move the locking around a bit to ensure that there is
no window where someone could insert a value outside the range
while we're in the middle of enabling STP.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cheers,
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
net/bridge/br_multicast.c
net/ipv6/sit.c
The conflicts were minor:
1) sit.c changes overlap with change to ip_tunnel_xmit() signature.
2) br_multicast.c had an overlap between computing max_delay using
msecs_to_jiffies and turning MLDV2_MRC() into an inline function
with a name using lowercase instead of uppercase letters.
3) stmmac had two overlapping changes, one which conditionally allocated
and hooked up a dma_cfg based upon the presence of the pbl OF property,
and another one handling store-and-forward DMA made. The latter of
which should not go into the new of_find_property() basic block.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The multicast snooping code should have matured enough to be safely
applicable to IPv6 link-local multicast addresses (excluding the
link-local all nodes address, ff02::1), too.
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently we would still potentially suffer multicast packet loss if there
is just either an IGMP or an MLD querier: For the former case, we would
possibly drop IPv6 multicast packets, for the latter IPv4 ones. This is
because we are currently assuming that if either an IGMP or MLD querier
is present that the other one is present, too.
This patch makes the behaviour and fix added in
"bridge: disable snooping if there is no querier" (b00589af3b)
to also work if there is either just an IGMP or an MLD querier on the
link: It refines the deactivation of the snooping to be protocol
specific by using separate timers for the snooped IGMP and MLD queries
as well as separate timers for our internal IGMP and MLD queriers.
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use of RCU here with out marked pointer and function doesn't match prototype
with sparse.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If there is no querier on a link then we won't get periodic reports and
therefore won't be able to learn about multicast listeners behind ports,
potentially leading to lost multicast packets, especially for multicast
listeners that joined before the creation of the bridge.
These lost multicast packets can appear since c5c2326059
("bridge: Add multicast_querier toggle and disable queries by default")
in particular.
With this patch we are flooding multicast packets if our querier is
disabled and if we didn't detect any other querier.
A grace period of the Maximum Response Delay of the querier is added to
give multicast responses enough time to arrive and to be learned from
before disabling the flooding behaviour again.
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This started out with fixing a sparse warning, then I realized that
the wrapper function br_netpoll_info could just be collapsed away
by rolling it into the enable code.
Also, eliminate unnecessary goto's
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a flag to control flood of unicast traffic. By default, flood is
on and the bridge will flood unicast traffic if it doesn't know
the destination. When the flag is turned off, unicast traffic
without an FDB will not be forwarded to the specified port.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow user to control whether mac learning is enabled on the port.
By default, mac learning is enabled. Disabling mac learning will
cause new dynamic FDB entries to not be created for a particular port.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently we arm the expire timer when the mdb entry is added,
however, this causes problem when there is no querier sent
out after that.
So we should only arm the timer when a corresponding query is
received, as suggested by Herbert.
And he also mentioned "if there is no querier then group
subscriptions shouldn't expire. There has to be at least one querier
in the network for this thing to work. Otherwise it just degenerates
into a non-snooping switch, which is OK."
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Quote from Adam:
"If it is believed that the use of 0.0.0.0
as the IP address is what is causing strange behaviour on other devices
then is there a good reason that a bridge rather than a router shouldn't
be the active querier? If not then using the bridge IP address and
having the querier enabled by default may be a reasonable solution
(provided that our querier obeys the election rules and shuts up if it
sees a query from a lower IP address that isn't 0.0.0.0). Just because a
device is the elected querier for IGMP doesn't appear to mean it is
required to perform any other routing functions."
And introduce a new troggle for it, as suggested by Herbert.
Suggested-by: Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Keep a STP port path cost value if it was set by a user.
Don't replace it with the link-speed based path cost
whenever the link goes down and comes back up.
Reported-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Obviously, vid should be considered when searching for multicast
group.
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add an ability to configure a separate "untagged" egress
policy to the VLAN information of the bridge. This superseeds PVID
policy and makes PVID ingress-only. The policy is configured with a
new flag and is represented as a port bitmap per vlan. Egress frames
with a VLAN id in "untagged" policy bitmap would egress
the port without VLAN header.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When VLAN is added to the port, a local fdb entry for that port
(the entry with the mac address of the port) is added for that
VLAN. This way we can correctly determine if the traffic
is for the bridge itself. If the address of the port changes,
we try to change all the local fdb entries we have for that port.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When a user adds bridge neighbors, allow him to specify VLAN id.
If the VLAN id is not specified, the neighbor will be added
for VLANs currently in the ports filter list. If no VLANs are
configured on the port, we use vlan 0 and only add 1 entry.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add vlan_id to multicasts groups so that we know which vlan
each group belongs to and can correctly forward to appropriate vlan.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds vlan to unicast fdb entries that are created for
learned addresses (not the manually configured ones). It adds
vlan id into the hash mix and uses vlan as an addditional parameter
for an entry match.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A user may designate a certain vlan as PVID. This means that
any ingress frame that does not contain a vlan tag is assigned to
this vlan and any forwarding decisions are made with this vlan in mind.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
At ingress, any untagged traffic is assigned to the PVID.
Any tagged traffic is filtered according to membership bitmap.
At egress, if the vlan matches the PVID, the frame is sent
untagged. Otherwise the frame is sent tagged.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Using the RTM_GETLINK dump the vlan filter list of a given
bridge port. The information depends on setting the filter
flag similar to how nic VF info is dumped.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a netlink interface to add and remove vlan configuration on bridge port.
The interface uses the RTM_SETLINK message and encodes the vlan
configuration inside the IFLA_AF_SPEC. It is possble to include multiple
vlans to either add or remove in a single message.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When bridge forwards a frame, make sure that a frame is allowed
to egress on that port.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When a frame arrives on a port or transmitted by the bridge,
if we have VLANs configured, validate that a given VLAN is allowed
to enter the bridge.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adds an optional infrustructure component to bridge that would allow
native vlan filtering in the bridge. Each bridge port (as well
as the bridge device) now get a VLAN bitmap. Each bit in the bitmap
is associated with a vlan id. This way if the bit corresponding to
the vid is set in the bitmap that the packet with vid is allowed to
enter and exit the port.
Write access the bitmap is protected by RTNL and read access
protected by RCU.
Vlan functionality is disabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
And remove no longer used br->flags.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds empty br_mdb_init() and br_mdb_uninit() definitions in
br_private.h to avoid build failure when CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING is not set.
These methods were moved from br_multicast.c to br_netlink.c by
commit 3ec8e9f085
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bridge fdb and link rtnl operations are registered in
core/rtnetlink. Bridge mdb operations are registred
in bridge/mdb. When removing bridge module, do not
unregister ALL PF_BRIDGE ops since that would remove
the ops from rtnetlink as well. Do remove mdb ops when
bridge is destroyed.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a flag to each mdb entry, so that we can distinguish
permanent entries with temporary entries.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch implents adding/deleting mdb entries via netlink.
Currently all entries are temp, we probably need a flag to distinguish
permanent entries too.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As Stephen mentioned, we need to monitor the mdb
changes in user-space, so add notifications via netlink too.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In case of rehashing, introduce a global variable 'br_mdb_rehash_seq'
which gets increased every time when rehashing, and assign
net->dev_base_seq + br_mdb_rehash_seq to cb->seq.
In theory cb->seq could be wrapped to zero, but this is not
easy to fix, as net->dev_base_seq is not visible inside
br_mdb_rehash(). In practice, this is rare.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
V5: fix two bugs pointed out by Thomas
remove seq check for now, mark it as TODO
V4: remove some useless #include
some coding style fix
V3: drop debugging printk's
update selinux perm table as well
V2: drop patch 1/2, export ifindex directly
Redesign netlink attributes
Improve netlink seq check
Handle IPv6 addr as well
This patch exports bridge multicast database via netlink
message type RTM_GETMDB. Similar to fdb, but currently bridge-specific.
We may need to support modify multicast database too (RTM_{ADD,DEL}MDB).
(Thanks to Thomas for patient reviews)
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
V3: make it a flag
V2: make the toggle per-port
Fast leave allows bridge to immediately stops the multicast
traffic on the port receives IGMP Leave when IGMP snooping is enabled,
no timeouts are observed.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
V2: make the toggle per-port
Fast leave allows bridge to immediately stops the multicast
traffic on the port receives IGMP Leave when IGMP snooping is enabled,
no timeouts are observed.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is Linux bridge implementation of root port guard.
If BPDU is received from a leaf (edge) port, it should not
be elected as root port.
Why would you want to do this?
If using STP on a bridge and the downstream bridges are not fully
trusted; this prevents a hostile guest for rerouting traffic.
Why not just use netfilter?
Netfilter does not track of follow spanning tree decisions.
It would be difficult and error prone to try and mirror STP
resolution in netfilter module.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is Linux bridge implementation of STP protection
(Cisco BPDU guard/Juniper BPDU block). BPDU block disables
the bridge port if a STP BPDU packet is received.
Why would you want to do this?
If running Spanning Tree on bridge, hostile devices on the network
may send BPDU and cause network failure. Enabling bpdu block
will detect and stop this.
How to recover the port?
The port will be restarted if link is brought down, or
removed and reattached. For example:
# ip li set dev eth0 down; ip li set dev eth0 up
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Instead of issuing (0) statements when !CONFIG_SYSFS which will cause
'warning: ', we'll use inline statements instead. This will effectively
do the same thing, but suppress any unnecessary warnings.
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jeff Kirsher says:
====================
This series contains updates to ixgbe, ixgbevf, igbvf, igb and
networking core (bridge). Most notably is the addition of support
for local link multicast addresses in SR-IOV mode to the networking
core.
Also note, the ixgbe patch "ixgbe: Add support for pipeline reset" and
"ixgbe: Fix return value from macvlan filter function" is revised based
on community feedback.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Hardware switches may support enabling and disabling the
loopback switch which puts the device in a VEPA mode defined
in the IEEE 802.1Qbg specification. In this mode frames are
not switched in the hardware but sent directly to the switch.
SR-IOV capable NICs will likely support this mode I am
aware of at least two such devices. Also I am told (but don't
have any of this hardware available) that there are devices
that only support VEPA modes. In these cases it is important
at a minimum to be able to query these attributes.
This patch adds an additional IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE attribute that can be
set and dumped via the PF_BRIDGE:{SET|GET}LINK operations. Also
anticipating bridge attributes that may be common for both embedded
bridges and software bridges this adds a flags attribute
IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS currently used to determine if the command or event
is being generated to/from an embedded bridge or software bridge.
Finally, the event generation is pulled out of the bridge module and
into rtnetlink proper.
For example using the macvlan driver in VEPA mode on top of
an embedded switch requires putting the embedded switch into
a VEPA mode to get the expected results.
-------- --------
| VEPA | | VEPA | <-- macvlan vepa edge relays
-------- --------
| |
| |
------------------
| VEPA | <-- embedded switch in NIC
------------------
|
|
-------------------
| external switch | <-- shiny new physical
------------------- switch with VEPA support
A packet sent from the macvlan VEPA at the top could be
loopbacked on the embedded switch and never seen by the
external switch. So in order for this to work the embedded
switch needs to be set in the VEPA state via the above
described commands.
By making these attributes nested in IFLA_AF_SPEC we allow
future extensions to be made as needed.
CC: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The PF_BRIDGE:RTM_{GET|SET}LINK nlmsg family and type are
currently embedded in the ./net/bridge module. This prohibits
them from being used by other bridging devices. One example
of this being hardware that has embedded bridging components.
In order to use these nlmsg types more generically this patch
adds two net_device_ops hooks. One to set link bridge attributes
and another to dump the current bride attributes.
ndo_bridge_setlink()
ndo_bridge_getlink()
CC: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In SR-IOV mode the PF driver acts as the uplink port and is
used to send control packets e.g. lldpad, stp, etc.
eth0.1 eth0.2 eth0
VF VF PF
| | | <-- stand-in for uplink
| | |
--------------------------
| Embedded Switch |
--------------------------
|
MAC <-- uplink
But the embedded switch is setup to forward multicast addresses
to all interfaces both VFs and PF and onto the physical link.
This results in reserved MAC addresses used by control protocols
to be forwarded over the switch onto the VF.
In the LLDP case the PF sends an LLDPDU and it is currently
being forwarded to all the VFs who then see the PF as a peer.
This is incorrect.
This patch adds the multicast addresses to the RAR table in the
hardware to prevent this behavior.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Later changes need to be able to refer to neighbour attributes
when doing fdb_add.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The internal functions for add/deleting addresses don't change
their argument.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() may be called
with read_lock() held, so should use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate
memory. Eric suggested to pass gfp flags to __netpoll_setup().
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This ensures that bridges created with brctl(8) or ioctl(2) directly
also carry IFLA_LINKINFO when dumped over netlink. This also allows
to create a bridge with ioctl(2) and delete it with RTM_DELLINK.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This adds two new flags NTF_MASTER and NTF_SELF that can
now be used to specify where PF_BRIDGE netlink commands should
be sent. NTF_MASTER sends the commands to the 'dev->master'
device for parsing. Typically this will be the linux net/bridge,
or open-vswitch devices. Also without any flags set the command
will be handled by the master device as well so that current user
space tools continue to work as expected.
The NTF_SELF flag will push the PF_BRIDGE commands to the
device. In the basic example below the commands are then parsed
and programmed in the embedded bridge.
Note if both NTF_SELF and NTF_MASTER bits are set then the
command will be sent to both 'dev->master' and 'dev' this allows
user space to easily keep the embedded bridge and software bridge
in sync.
There is a slight complication in the case with both flags set
when an error occurs. To resolve this the rtnl handler clears
the NTF_ flag in the netlink ack to indicate which sets completed
successfully. The add/del handlers will abort as soon as any
error occurs.
To support this new net device ops were added to call into
the device and the existing bridging code was refactored
to use these. There should be no required changes in user space
to support the current bridge behavior.
A basic setup with a SR-IOV enabled NIC looks like this,
veth0 veth2
| |
------------
| bridge0 | <---- software bridging
------------
/
/
ethx.y ethx
VF PF
\ \ <---- propagate FDB entries to HW
\ \
--------------------
| Embedded Bridge | <---- hardware offloaded switching
--------------------
In this case the embedded bridge must be managed to allow 'veth0'
to communicate with 'ethx.y' correctly. At present drivers managing
the embedded bridge either send frames onto the network which
then get dropped by the switch OR the embedded bridge will flood
these frames. With this patch we have a mechanism to manage the
embedded bridge correctly from user space. This example is specific
to SR-IOV but replacing the VF with another PF or dropping this
into the DSA framework generates similar management issues.
Examples session using the 'br'[1] tool to add, dump and then
delete a mac address with a new "embedded" option and enabled
ixgbe driver:
# br fdb add 22:35:19:ac:60:59 dev eth3
# br fdb
port mac addr flags
veth0 22:35:19:ac:60:58 static
veth0 9a:5f:81:f7:f6:ec local
eth3 00:1b:21:55:23:59 local
eth3 22:35:19:ac:60:59 static
veth0 22:35:19:ac:60:57 static
#br fdb add 22:35:19:ac:60:59 embedded dev eth3
#br fdb
port mac addr flags
veth0 22:35:19:ac:60:58 static
veth0 9a:5f:81:f7:f6:ec local
eth3 00:1b:21:55:23:59 local
eth3 22:35:19:ac:60:59 static
veth0 22:35:19:ac:60:57 static
eth3 22:35:19:ac:60:59 local embedded
#br fdb del 22:35:19:ac:60:59 embedded dev eth3
I added a couple lines to 'br' to set the flags correctly is all. It
is my opinion that the merit of this patch is now embedded and SW
bridges can both be modeled correctly in user space using very nearly
the same message passing.
[1] 'br' tool was published as an RFC here and will be renamed 'bridge'
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/117664/
Thanks to Jamal Hadi Salim, Stephen Hemminger and Ben Hutchings for
valuable feedback, suggestions, and review.
v2: fixed api descriptions and error case with both NTF_SELF and
NTF_MASTER set plus updated patch description.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
