Re: [PATCH resend net] net: switchdev: don't set port_obj_info->handled true when -EOPNOTSUPP

On 22/01/2021 10.05, Horatiu Vultur wrote:

The 01/22/2021 00:43, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

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It's not true that switchdev_port_obj_notify() only inspects the
->handled field of "struct switchdev_notifier_port_obj_info" if
call_switchdev_blocking_notifiers() returns 0 - there's a WARN_ON()
triggering for a non-zero return combined with ->handled not being
true. But the real problem here is that -EOPNOTSUPP is not being
properly handled.

The wrapper functions switchdev_handle_port_obj_add() et al change a
return value of -EOPNOTSUPP to 0, and the treatment of ->handled in
switchdev_port_obj_notify() seems to be designed to change that back
to -EOPNOTSUPP in case nobody actually acted on the notifier (i.e.,
everybody returned -EOPNOTSUPP).

Currently, as soon as some device down the stack passes the check_cb()
check, ->handled gets set to true, which means that
switchdev_port_obj_notify() cannot actually ever return -EOPNOTSUPP.

This, for example, means that the detection of hardware offload
support in the MRP code is broken - br_mrp_set_ring_role() always ends
up setting mrp->ring_role_offloaded to 1, despite not a single
mainline driver implementing any of the SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID*_MRP. So
since the MRP code thinks the generation of MRP test frames has been
offloaded, no such frames are actually put on the wire.

Just a small correction to what you have said regarding MRP. Is not the
option mrp->ring_role_offload that determines if the MRP Test frames are
generated by the HW but is the return value of the function
'br_mrp_switchdev_send_ring_test' called from function
'br_mrp_start_test'.

Hm, you're right, but the underlying problem is the same:
br_mrp_switchdev_set_ring_role() (whose return value is what is used to
determine ->ing_role_offloaded) and br_mrp_switchdev_send_ring_test()
both make use of switchdev_port_obj_add(SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_*MRP), and that
function is currently unable to return -EOPNOTSUPP, which it must in
order for the MRP logic to work.

Rasmus