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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 net-next 1/4] net: bridge: add fdb flag to extent locked port feature
On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 01:30:06PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 02/06/2022 13:17, Hans Schultz wrote:
> > On tor, jun 02, 2022 at 12:33, Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> wrote:
> >> On 02/06/2022 12:17, Hans Schultz wrote:
> >>> On tis, maj 31, 2022 at 17:23, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:34:21AM +0200, Hans Schultz wrote:
> >
> >>> Another issue is that
> >>> bridge fdb add MAC dev DEV master static
> >>> seems to add the entry with the SELF flag set, which I don't think is
> >>> what we would want it to do or?
> >>
> >> I don't see such thing (hacked iproute2 to print the flags before cmd):
> >> $ bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vnet110 master static
> >> flags 0x4
> >>
> >> 0x4 = NTF_MASTER only
> >>
> >
> > I also get 0x4 from iproute2, but I still get SELF entries when I look
> > with:
> > bridge fdb show dev DEV
> >
>
> after the above add:
> $ bridge fdb show dev vnet110 | grep 00:11
> 00:11:22:33:44:55 master virbr0 static

I think Hans is testing with mv88e6xxx which dumps entries directly from
HW via ndo_fdb_dump(). See dsa_slave_port_fdb_do_dump() which sets
NTF_SELF.

Hans, are you seeing the entry twice? Once with 'master' and once with
'self'?

>
> >>> Also the replace command is not really supported properly as it is. I
> >>> have made a fix for that which looks something like this:
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
> >>> index 6cbb27e3b976..f43aa204f375 100644
> >>> --- a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
> >>> +++ b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
> >>> @@ -917,6 +917,9 @@ static int fdb_add_entry(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_bridge_port *source,
> >>> if (flags & NLM_F_EXCL)
> >>> return -EEXIST;
> >>>
> >>> + if (flags & NLM_F_REPLACE)
> >>> + modified = true;
> >>> +
> >>> if (READ_ONCE(fdb->dst) != source) {
> >>> WRITE_ONCE(fdb->dst, source);
> >>> modified = true;
> >>>
> >>> The argument for always sending notifications to the driver in the case
> >>> of replace is that a replace command will refresh the entries timeout if
> >>> the entry is the same. Any thoughts on this?
> >>
> >> I don't think so. It always updates its "used" timer, not its "updated" timer which is the one
> >> for expire. A replace that doesn't actually change anything on the entry shouldn't generate
> >> a notification.
> >
> > Okay, so then there is missing checks on flags as the issue arose from
> > replacing locked entries with dynamic entries. I will do another fix
> > based on flags as modified needs to be true for the driver to get notified.
>

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