Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: fix mv88e6xxx switches

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 10:51:16AM +0000, Russell King wrote:

Since commit 76e398a62712 ("net: dsa: use switchdev obj for VLAN add/del
ops"), the Marvell 88E6xxx switch has been unable to pass traffic
between ports - any received traffic is discarded by the switch.
Taking a port out of bridge mode and configuring a vlan on it also the
port to start passing traffic.

With the debugfs files re-instated to allow debug of this issue by
comparing the register settings between the working and non-working
case, the reason becomes clear:

     GLOBAL GLOBAL2 SERDES   0    1    2    3    4    5    6
- 7:  1111    707f    2001     2    2    2    2    2    0    2
+ 7:  1111    707f    2001     1    1    1    1    1    0    1

Register 7 for the ports is the default vlan tag register, and in the
non-working setup, it has been set to 2, despite vlan 2 not being
configured.  This causes the switch to drop all packets coming in to
these ports.  The working setup has the default vlan tag register set
to 1, which is the default vlan when none is configured.

Inspection of the code reveals why.  The code prior to this commit
was:

-		for (vid = vlan->vid_begin; vid <= vlan->vid_end; ++vid) {
...
-			if (!err && vlan->flags & BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_PVID)
-				err = ds->drv->port_pvid_set(ds, p->port, vid);

but the new code is:

+	for (vid = vlan->vid_begin; vid <= vlan->vid_end; ++vid) {
...
+	}
...
+	if (pvid)
+		err = _mv88e6xxx_port_pvid_set(ds, port, vid);

This causes the new code to always set the default vlan to one higher
than the old code.

Fix this.

Fixes: 76e398a62712 ("net: dsa: use switchdev obj for VLAN add/del ops")
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <redacted>

Hi Russell

Thanks for digging into this.

I think this is a step towards a solution, but does not solve all the
problems.

e.g. I have a switch interface lan0 with the IP address
192.168.10.2. I can ping this address from another host. I then take
the IP address off the interface, create a br0 device, add lan0 to the
bridge, and put 192.168.10.2 onto the bridge. I should be able to then
ping the address. But it does not work.

     Andrew