Hello,

On 31/10/2020 12:29:10+0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:

Currently, mscc_ocelot ports configure pvid=0 in standalone mode, and
inherit the pvid from the bridge when one is present.

When the bridge has vlan_filtering=0, the software semantics are that
packets should be received regardless of whether there's a pvid
configured on the ingress port or not. However, ocelot does not observe
those semantics today.

Moreover, changing the PVID is also a problem with vlan_filtering=0.
We are privately remapping the VID of FDB, MDB entries to the port's
PVID when those are VLAN-unaware (i.e. when the VID of these entries
comes to us as 0). But we have no logic of adjusting that remapping when
the user changes the pvid and vlan_filtering is 0. So stale entries
would be left behind, and untagged traffic will stop matching on them.

And even if we were to solve that, there's an even bigger problem. If
swp0 has pvid 1, and swp1 has pvid 2, and both are under a vlan_filtering=0
bridge, they should be able to forward traffic between one another.
However, with ocelot they wouldn't do that.

The simplest way of fixing this is to never configure the pvid based on
what the bridge is asking for, when vlan_filtering is 0. Only if there
was a VLAN that the bridge couldn't mangle, that we could use as pvid....
So, turns out, there's 0 just for that. And for a reason: IEEE
802.1Q-2018, page 247, Table 9-2-Reserved VID values says:

	The null VID. Indicates that the tag header contains only
	priority information; no VID is present in the frame.
	This VID value shall not be configured as a PVID or a member
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	of a VID Set, or configured in any FDB entry, or used in any
	Management operation.

So, aren't we doing exactly what 802.1Q says not to? Well, in a way, but
what we're doing here is just driver-level bookkeeping, all for the
better. The fact that we're using a pvid of 0 is not observable behavior
from the outside world: the network stack does not see the classified
VLAN that the switch uses, in vlan_filtering=0 mode. And we're also more
consistent with the standalone mode now.

IIRC, we are using pvid 1 because else bridging breaks when
CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q is not enabled. Did you test that configuration?



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