Re: [PATCH net v4 2/2] net/mlx5: Bridge, don't fail unlink of untracked/unsupported peer ports
From: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Date: 2026-09-22 06:53:02
On 18/09/2026 12:59, Bernardo Soares wrote:
mlx5_esw_bridge_vport_unlink() returns -EINVAL when the port isn't
tracked by this instance's br_offloads. This is reachable on a sibling
instance that registered its notifier after the port was already
enslaved: it never saw the NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER link event, so
peer_link() never created a peer port for it, but it does see the
later unlink event and fails. Return 0 instead, and give
mlx5_esw_bridge_vport_peer_unlink() the same merged_eswitch capability
guard peer_link() already has, since without it peer_link() likewise
never creates a port to unlink.
This also matters beyond the -EINVAL itself:
mlx5_esw_bridge_switchdev_port_event() runs on the per-netns
netdev_chain, and notifier_from_errno(-EINVAL) sets NOTIFY_STOP_MASK,
which call_netdevice_notifiers_info() checks to stop calling further
listeners on that chain - so the old -EINVAL silently dropped the
event for any listener registered later on the same chain, even
though none of it was visible to user space since
__netdev_upper_dev_unlink() discards the return value.
Fixes: c358ea1741bc ("net/mlx5: Bridge, allow merged eswitch connectivity")
Signed-off-by: Bernardo Soares <redacted>Thanks, Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com> Mark
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c index ac90ccda1272..b4cf3c5ac0dd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c@@ -1649,10 +1649,8 @@ int mlx5_esw_bridge_vport_unlink(struct net_device *br_netdev, u16 vport_num, int err; port = mlx5_esw_bridge_port_lookup(vport_num, esw_owner_vhca_id, br_offloads); - if (!port) { - NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Port is not attached to any bridge"); - return -EINVAL; - } + if (!port) + return 0; if (port->bridge->ifindex != br_netdev->ifindex) { NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Port is attached to another bridge"); return -EINVAL;@@ -1682,6 +1680,9 @@ int mlx5_esw_bridge_vport_peer_unlink(struct net_device *br_netdev, u16 vport_nu struct mlx5_esw_bridge_offloads *br_offloads, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) { + if (!MLX5_CAP_ESW(br_offloads->esw->dev, merged_eswitch)) + return 0; + return mlx5_esw_bridge_vport_unlink(br_netdev, vport_num, esw_owner_vhca_id, br_offloads, extack); }