netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/5] vlan: support binding link state to vlan member bridge ports

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Message-ID: <b1721cc8-04aa-e8bf-dd70-cdd8d6f780bb@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Apr 2019 14:25:00 +0300
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     Mike Manning <mmanning@...tta.att-mail.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/5] vlan: support binding link state to vlan
 member bridge ports

On 17/04/2019 21:16, Mike Manning wrote:
> In the case of vlan filtering on bridges, the bridge may also have the
> corresponding vlan devices as upper devices. Currently the link state
> of vlan devices is transferred from the lower device. So this is up if
> the bridge is in admin up state and there is at least one bridge port
> that is up, regardless of the vlan that the port is a member of.
> 
> The link state of the vlan device may need to track only the state of
> the subset of ports that are also members of the corresponding vlan,
> rather than that of all ports.
> 
> Add a flag to specify a vlan bridge binding mode, by which the link
> state is no longer automatically transferred from the lower device,
> but is instead determined by the bridge ports that are members of the
> vlan.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@...tta.att-mail.com>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/if_vlan.h | 9 +++++----
>  net/8021q/vlan_dev.c         | 3 ++-
>  net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c     | 3 ++-
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_vlan.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_vlan.h
> index 7a0e8bd65b6b..90a2c89afc8f 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_vlan.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_vlan.h
> @@ -32,10 +32,11 @@ enum vlan_ioctl_cmds {
>  };
>  
>  enum vlan_flags {
> -	VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR	= 0x1,
> -	VLAN_FLAG_GVRP		= 0x2,
> -	VLAN_FLAG_LOOSE_BINDING	= 0x4,
> -	VLAN_FLAG_MVRP		= 0x8,
> +	VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR		= 0x1,
> +	VLAN_FLAG_GVRP			= 0x2,
> +	VLAN_FLAG_LOOSE_BINDING		= 0x4,
> +	VLAN_FLAG_MVRP			= 0x8,
> +	VLAN_FLAG_BRIDGE_BINDING	= 0x10,
>  };
>  
>  enum vlan_name_types {
> diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
> index 8d77b6ee4477..ed996b500b10 100644
> --- a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
> +++ b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
> @@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ int vlan_dev_change_flags(const struct net_device *dev, u32 flags, u32 mask)
>  	u32 old_flags = vlan->flags;
>  
>  	if (mask & ~(VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR | VLAN_FLAG_GVRP |
> -		     VLAN_FLAG_LOOSE_BINDING | VLAN_FLAG_MVRP))
> +		     VLAN_FLAG_LOOSE_BINDING | VLAN_FLAG_MVRP |
> +		     VLAN_FLAG_BRIDGE_BINDING))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	vlan->flags = (old_flags & ~mask) | (flags & mask);
> diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c b/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
> index 9b60c1e399e2..a624dccf68fd 100644
> --- a/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
> @@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ static int vlan_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[],
>  		flags = nla_data(data[IFLA_VLAN_FLAGS]);
>  		if ((flags->flags & flags->mask) &
>  		    ~(VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR | VLAN_FLAG_GVRP |
> -		      VLAN_FLAG_LOOSE_BINDING | VLAN_FLAG_MVRP)) {
> +		      VLAN_FLAG_LOOSE_BINDING | VLAN_FLAG_MVRP |
> +		      VLAN_FLAG_BRIDGE_BINDING)) {
>  			NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Invalid VLAN flags");
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  		}
> 

Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>