Re: What to do when a bridge port gets its pvid deleted?
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-08-19 21:10:49
Subsystem:
ethernet bridge, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Nikolay Aleksandrov, Ido Schimmel, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 23:15, Ido Schimmel [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 08:15:03PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:quoted
On 6/28/19 7:45 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:quoted
On 6/28/19 5:37 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:quoted
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 15:30, Ido Schimmel [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:49:29PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:quoted
A number of DSA drivers (BCM53XX, Microchip KSZ94XX, Mediatek MT7530 at the very least), as well as Mellanox Spectrum (I didn't look at all the pure switchdev drivers) try to restore the pvid to a default value on .port_vlan_del.I don't know about DSA drivers, but that's not what mlxsw is doing. If the VLAN that is configured as PVID is deleted from the bridge port, the driver instructs the port to discard untagged and prio-tagged packets. This is consistent with the bridge driver's behavior. We do have a flow the "restores" the PVID, but that's when a port is unlinked from its bridge master. The PVID we set is 4095 which cannot be configured by the 8021q / bridge driver. This is due to the way the underlying hardware works. Even if a port is not bridged and used purely for routing, packets still do L2 lookup first which sends them directly to the router block. If PVID is not configured, untagged packets could not be routed. Obviously, at egress we strip this VLAN.quoted
Sure, the port stops receiving traffic when its pvid is a VLAN ID that is not installed in its hw filter, but as far as the bridge core is concerned, this is to be expected: # bridge vlan add dev swp2 vid 100 pvid untagged # bridge vlan port vlan ids swp5 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp2 1 Egress Untagged 100 PVID Egress Untagged swp3 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp4 1 PVID Egress Untagged br0 1 PVID Egress Untagged # ping 10.0.0.1 PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.682 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.299 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.251 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.324 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.257 ms ^C--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4188ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.251/0.362/0.682/0.163 ms # bridge vlan del dev swp2 vid 100 # bridge vlan port vlan ids swp5 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp2 1 Egress Untagged swp3 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp4 1 PVID Egress Untagged br0 1 PVID Egress Untagged # ping 10.0.0.1 PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---8 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 7267ms What is the consensus here? Is there a reason why the bridge driver doesn't take care of this?Take care of what? :) Always maintaining a PVID on the bridge port? It's completely OK not to have a PVID.Yes, I didn't think it through during the first email. I came to the same conclusion in the second one.quoted
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Do switchdev drivers have to restore the pvid to always be operational, even if their state becomes inconsistent with the upper dev? Is it just 'nice to have'? What if VID 1 isn't in the hw filter either (perfectly legal)?Are you saying that DSA drivers always maintain a PVID on the bridge port and allow untagged traffic to ingress regardless of the bridge driver's configuration? If so, I think this needs to be fixed.Well, not at the DSA core level. But for Microchip: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/tree/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz9477.c#n576 For Broadcom: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/tree/drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c#n1376 For Mediatek: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/tree/drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c#n1196 There might be others as well.That sounds bogus indeed, and I bet that the two other drivers just followed the b53 driver there. I will have to test this again and come up with a patch eventually. When the port leaves the bridge we do bring it back into a default PVID (which is different than the bridge's default PVID) so that part should be okay.Adding a few more networking people. So my flow is something like this: - Boot a board with a DSA switch - Bring all interfaces up - Enslave all interfaces to br0 - Enable vlan_filtering on br0 What VIDs should be installed into the ports' hw filters, and what should the pvid be at this point? Should the switch ports pass any traffic? At this point, 'bridge vlan' shows a confusing: port vlan ids eth0 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp5 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp2 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp3 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp4 1 PVID Egress Untagged br0 1 PVID Egress Untagged for all ports, but the .port_vlan_add callback is nowhere to be found.The bridge adds a PVID on the port when it is enslaved to the bridge. The configuration only takes effect when VLAN filtering is enabled. I'm looking at dsa_port_vlan_add() and it seems that it does not propagate the VLAN call when VLAN filtering is disabled. This explains why you never see the callback.
Aha! The offending commit is this:
commit 2ea7a679ca2abd251c1ec03f20508619707e1749
Author: Andrew Lunn [off-list ref]
Date: Tue Nov 7 00:04:24 2017 +0100
net: dsa: Don't add vlans when vlan filtering is disabled
The software bridge can be build with vlan filtering support
included. However, by default it is turned off. In its turned off
state, it still passes VLANs via switchev, even though they are not to
be used. Don't pass these VLANs to the hardware. Only do so when vlan
filtering is enabled.
This fixes at least one corner case. There are still issues in other
corners, such as when vlan_filtering is later enabled.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [off-list ref]
It's good to know that it's there (like you said, it explains some
things) but I can't exactly say that removing it helps in any way.
In fact, removing it only overwrites the dsa_8021q VLANs with 1 during
bridge_join, while not actually doing anything upon a vlan_filtering
toggle.
So the sja1105 driver is in a way shielded by DSA from the bridge, for
the better.
It still appears to be true that the bridge doesn't think it's
necessary to notify through SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_PORT_VLAN again. So my
best bet is to restore the pvid on my own.
However I've already stumbled upon an apparent bug while trying to do
that. Does this look off? If it doesn't, I'll submit it as a patch:
commit 788f03991aa576fc0b4b26ca330af0f412c55582
Author: Vladimir Oltean [off-list ref]
Date: Mon Aug 19 22:57:00 2019 +0300
net: bridge: Keep the BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_PVID flag in net_bridge_vlan
Currently this simplified code snippet fails:
br_vlan_get_pvid(netdev, &pvid);
br_vlan_get_info(netdev, pvid, &vinfo);
ASSERT(!(vinfo.flags & BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_PVID));
It is intuitive that the pvid of a netdevice should have the
BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_PVID flag set.
However I can't seem to pinpoint a commit where this behavior was
introduced. It seems like it's been like that since forever.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean [off-list ref]
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
index 021cc9f66804..f49b2758bcab 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c@@ -68,10 +68,13 @@ static bool __vlan_add_flags(structnet_bridge_vlan *v, u16 flags)
else
vg = nbp_vlan_group(v->port);
- if (flags & BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_PVID)
+ if (flags & BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_PVID) {
ret = __vlan_add_pvid(vg, v->vid);
- else
+ v->flags |= BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_PVID;
+ } else {
ret = __vlan_delete_pvid(vg, v->vid);
+ v->flags &= ~BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_PVID;
+ }
if (flags & BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_UNTAGGED)
v->flags |= BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_UNTAGGED;
I assume that if you configure the bridge with VLAN filtering enabled and then enslave a port, then everything works fine. mlxsw avoids the situation by forbidding the toggling of VLAN filtering on the bridge when its ports are enslaved.
I can certainly understand where this comes from. However a simpleton might object that this: ip link add name br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 ip link set dev swp2 master br0 should behave the same as this: ip link add name br0 type bridge ip link set dev swp2 master br0 echo 1 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/vlan_filtering I can't disagree with said simpleton.
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Whose responsibility is it for the switch to pass traffic without any further 'bridge vlan' command? What is the mechanism through which this should work? What if I do: sudo bridge vlan add vid 100 dev swp2 pvid untagged echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/vlan_filtering echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/vlan_filtering What pvid should there be on swp2 now? 'bridge vlan' shows: port vlan ids eth0 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp5 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp2 1 Egress Untagged 100 PVID Egress Untagged swp3 1 PVID Egress Untagged swp4 1 PVID Egress Untagged br0 1 PVID Egress Untagged If the 'bridge vlan' output is correct, whose responsibility is it to restore this pvid?I suggest to follow mlxsw and avoid this mess. You can support both VLAN filtering enable / disable without supporting dynamically toggling the option.quoted
More context: the sja1105 driver is somewhat similar to the mlxsw in that VLAN awareness cannot be truly disabled. Arid details aside, in both cases, achieving "VLAN-unaware"-like behavior involves manipulating the pvid in both cases. But it appears that the bridge core does expect: (1) that the driver performs a default VLAN initialization which matches its own, without them ever communicating. But because switchdev/DSA drivers start off in standalone mode, vlan_filtering=0 comes first, hence the non-standard pvid. Through what mechanism is the bridge-expected pvid supposed to get restored upon flipping vlan_filtering? (2) that toggling VLAN filtering off and on has no other state upon the underlying driver than enabling and disabling VLAN awareness. The VLAN hw filter table is assumed to be unchanged. Is this a correct assumption? Thanks, -Vladimir