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Date:   Sun, 27 Jun 2021 17:10:02 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 04/15] net: dsa: delete dsa_legacy_fdb_add and dsa_legacy_fdb_del

From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

We want to add reference counting for FDB entries in cross-chip
topologies, and in order for that to have any chance of working and not
be unbalanced (leading to entries which are never deleted), we need to
ensure that higher layers are sane, because if they aren't, it's garbage
in, garbage out.

For example, if we add a bridge FDB entry twice, the bridge properly
errors out:

$ bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:07 master static
$ bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:07 master static
RTNETLINK answers: File exists

However, the same thing cannot be said about the bridge bypass
operations:

$ bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:07
$ bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:07
$ bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:07
$ bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:07
$ echo $?
0

But one 'bridge fdb del' is enough to remove the entry, no matter how
many times it was added.

The bridge bypass operations are impossible to maintain in these
circumstances and lack of support for reference counting the cross-chip
notifiers is holding us back from making further progress, so just drop
support for them. The only way left for users to install static bridge
FDB entries is the proper one, using the "master static" flags.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
---
 net/dsa/slave.c | 23 -----------------------
 1 file changed, 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c
index 898ed9cf756f..64acb1e11cd7 100644
--- a/net/dsa/slave.c
+++ b/net/dsa/slave.c
@@ -1651,27 +1651,6 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops dsa_slave_ethtool_ops = {
 	.self_test		= dsa_slave_net_selftest,
 };
 
-/* legacy way, bypassing the bridge *****************************************/
-static int dsa_legacy_fdb_add(struct ndmsg *ndm, struct nlattr *tb[],
-			      struct net_device *dev,
-			      const unsigned char *addr, u16 vid,
-			      u16 flags,
-			      struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
-{
-	struct dsa_port *dp = dsa_slave_to_port(dev);
-
-	return dsa_port_fdb_add(dp, addr, vid);
-}
-
-static int dsa_legacy_fdb_del(struct ndmsg *ndm, struct nlattr *tb[],
-			      struct net_device *dev,
-			      const unsigned char *addr, u16 vid)
-{
-	struct dsa_port *dp = dsa_slave_to_port(dev);
-
-	return dsa_port_fdb_del(dp, addr, vid);
-}
-
 static struct devlink_port *dsa_slave_get_devlink_port(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct dsa_port *dp = dsa_slave_to_port(dev);
@@ -1713,8 +1692,6 @@ static const struct net_device_ops dsa_slave_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_change_rx_flags	= dsa_slave_change_rx_flags,
 	.ndo_set_rx_mode	= dsa_slave_set_rx_mode,
 	.ndo_set_mac_address	= dsa_slave_set_mac_address,
-	.ndo_fdb_add		= dsa_legacy_fdb_add,
-	.ndo_fdb_del		= dsa_legacy_fdb_del,
 	.ndo_fdb_dump		= dsa_slave_fdb_dump,
 	.ndo_do_ioctl		= dsa_slave_ioctl,
 	.ndo_get_iflink		= dsa_slave_get_iflink,
-- 
2.25.1