netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/9] net: dsa: Allow drivers to filter packets they can decode source port from

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Date:   Sat, 4 May 2019 18:49:35 -0400
From:   Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/9] net: dsa: Allow drivers to filter packets
 they can decode source port from

Hi Vladimir,

On Sat,  4 May 2019 16:59:13 +0300, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com> wrote:
> Frames get processed by DSA and redirected to switch port net devices
> based on the ETH_P_XDSA multiplexed packet_type handler found by the
> network stack when calling eth_type_trans().
> 
> The running assumption is that once the DSA .rcv function is called, DSA
> is always able to decode the switch tag in order to change the skb->dev
> from its master.
> 
> However there are tagging protocols (such as the new DSA_TAG_PROTO_SJA1105,
> user of DSA_TAG_PROTO_8021Q) where this assumption is not completely
> true, since switch tagging piggybacks on the absence of a vlan_filtering
> bridge. Moreover, management traffic (BPDU, PTP) for this switch doesn't
> rely on switch tagging, but on a different mechanism. So it would make
> sense to at least be able to terminate that.
> 
> Having DSA receive traffic it can't decode would put it in an impossible
> situation: the eth_type_trans() function would invoke the DSA .rcv(),
> which could not change skb->dev, then eth_type_trans() would be invoked
> again, which again would call the DSA .rcv, and the packet would never
> be able to exit the DSA filter and would spiral in a loop until the
> whole system dies.
> 
> This happens because eth_type_trans() doesn't actually look at the skb
> (so as to identify a potential tag) when it deems it as being
> ETH_P_XDSA. It just checks whether skb->dev has a DSA private pointer
> installed (therefore it's a DSA master) and that there exists a .rcv
> callback (everybody except DSA_TAG_PROTO_NONE has that). This is
> understandable as there are many switch tags out there, and exhaustively
> checking for all of them is far from ideal.
> 
> The solution lies in introducing a filtering function for each tagging
> protocol. In the absence of a filtering function, all traffic is passed
> to the .rcv DSA callback. The tagging protocol should see the filtering
> function as a pre-validation that it can decode the incoming skb. The
> traffic that doesn't match the filter will bypass the DSA .rcv callback
> and be left on the master netdevice, which wasn't previously possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>

Looks promising, I'll try to give this a try soon!

Thanks,
Vivien