[PATCH net v2 1/3] net/mlx5: Bridge, don't fail switchdev events of sibling eswitch ports
From: Bernardo Soares <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-14 08:54:57
Subsystem:
mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Saeed Mahameed, Leon Romanovsky, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
mlx5 registers the bridge offload switchdev notifiers once per eswitch
instance, but the notifier chains are global, so every instance sees
every event and must filter out the ones that aren't its own. The
existing filter, mlx5_esw_bridge_dev_same_hw(), only checks that the
event netdevice sits on the same HCA - intentional for merged eswitch,
where one bridge can span representors of several eswitches on one
HCA - but same-HCA doesn't mean the instance actually has that port:
peer ports are only created reactively from NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER, so an
instance brought up after a sibling PF's port was already enslaved has
none. The port object and attribute handlers claim the event anyway
once same-HW passes, then fail the port lookup and return -EINVAL,
which gets reported to user space even though the owning instance
already handled it (e.g. "bridge vlan add ... RTNETLINK answers:
Invalid argument"). Fix by filtering on the tracked port instead.
Fixes: c358ea1741bc ("net/mlx5: Bridge, allow merged eswitch connectivity")
Signed-off-by: Bernardo Soares <redacted>
Cc: Vlad Buslov <redacted>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
---
v2: unchanged, resending as part of the series alongside the two
follow-up fixes raised in review (patches 2 and 3).
---
.../mellanox/mlx5/core/en/rep/bridge.c | 32 +++++++++++++++----
.../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c | 6 ++++
.../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/rep/bridge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/rep/bridge.c
index baac38bece14..56592e2e6b9b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/rep/bridge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/rep/bridge.c@@ -104,6 +104,28 @@ mlx5_esw_bridge_lower_rep_vport_num_vhca_id_get(struct net_device *dev, struct m return NULL; } +static bool mlx5_esw_bridge_rep_port_lookup(struct net_device *dev, + struct mlx5_esw_bridge_offloads *br_offloads, + u16 *vport_num, u16 *esw_owner_vhca_id) +{ + if (!mlx5_esw_bridge_rep_vport_num_vhca_id_get(dev, br_offloads->esw, vport_num, + esw_owner_vhca_id)) + return false; + + return mlx5_esw_bridge_port_exists(*vport_num, *esw_owner_vhca_id, br_offloads); +} + +static bool mlx5_esw_bridge_lower_rep_port_lookup(struct net_device *dev, + struct mlx5_esw_bridge_offloads *br_offloads, + u16 *vport_num, u16 *esw_owner_vhca_id) +{ + if (!mlx5_esw_bridge_lower_rep_vport_num_vhca_id_get(dev, br_offloads->esw, vport_num, + esw_owner_vhca_id)) + return false; + + return mlx5_esw_bridge_port_exists(*vport_num, *esw_owner_vhca_id, br_offloads); +} + static bool mlx5_esw_bridge_is_local(struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *rep, struct mlx5_eswitch *esw) {
@@ -218,8 +240,7 @@ mlx5_esw_bridge_port_obj_add(struct net_device *dev, u16 vport_num, esw_owner_vhca_id; int err; - if (!mlx5_esw_bridge_rep_vport_num_vhca_id_get(dev, br_offloads->esw, &vport_num, - &esw_owner_vhca_id)) + if (!mlx5_esw_bridge_rep_port_lookup(dev, br_offloads, &vport_num, &esw_owner_vhca_id)) return 0; port_obj_info->handled = true;
@@ -251,8 +272,7 @@ mlx5_esw_bridge_port_obj_del(struct net_device *dev, const struct switchdev_obj_port_mdb *mdb; u16 vport_num, esw_owner_vhca_id; - if (!mlx5_esw_bridge_rep_vport_num_vhca_id_get(dev, br_offloads->esw, &vport_num, - &esw_owner_vhca_id)) + if (!mlx5_esw_bridge_rep_port_lookup(dev, br_offloads, &vport_num, &esw_owner_vhca_id)) return 0; port_obj_info->handled = true;
@@ -283,8 +303,8 @@ mlx5_esw_bridge_port_obj_attr_set(struct net_device *dev, u16 vport_num, esw_owner_vhca_id; int err = 0; - if (!mlx5_esw_bridge_lower_rep_vport_num_vhca_id_get(dev, br_offloads->esw, &vport_num, - &esw_owner_vhca_id)) + if (!mlx5_esw_bridge_lower_rep_port_lookup(dev, br_offloads, &vport_num, + &esw_owner_vhca_id)) return 0; port_attr_info->handled = true;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c
index 87b5fd349594..ac90ccda1272 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c@@ -1686,6 +1686,12 @@ int mlx5_esw_bridge_vport_peer_unlink(struct net_device *br_netdev, u16 vport_nu extack); } +bool mlx5_esw_bridge_port_exists(u16 vport_num, u16 esw_owner_vhca_id, + struct mlx5_esw_bridge_offloads *br_offloads) +{ + return mlx5_esw_bridge_port_lookup(vport_num, esw_owner_vhca_id, br_offloads); +} + int mlx5_esw_bridge_port_vlan_add(u16 vport_num, u16 esw_owner_vhca_id, u16 vid, u16 flags, struct mlx5_esw_bridge_offloads *br_offloads, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.h
index d6f539161993..a4e59cc21089 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.h@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ int mlx5_esw_bridge_vlan_proto_set(u16 vport_num, u16 esw_owner_vhca_id, u16 pro struct mlx5_esw_bridge_offloads *br_offloads); int mlx5_esw_bridge_mcast_set(u16 vport_num, u16 esw_owner_vhca_id, bool enable, struct mlx5_esw_bridge_offloads *br_offloads); +bool mlx5_esw_bridge_port_exists(u16 vport_num, u16 esw_owner_vhca_id, + struct mlx5_esw_bridge_offloads *br_offloads); int mlx5_esw_bridge_port_vlan_add(u16 vport_num, u16 esw_owner_vhca_id, u16 vid, u16 flags, struct mlx5_esw_bridge_offloads *br_offloads, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
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