netdev - [PATCH 0/4] virtio_net: vdpa: update MAC address when it is generated by virtio-net

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Message-Id: <20230122100526.2302556-1-lvivier@redhat.com>
Date:   Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:05:22 +0100
From:   Laurent Vivier <lvivier@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Eli Cohen <elic@...dia.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Gautam Dawar <gautam.dawar@...inx.com>,
        Cindy Lu <lulu@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] virtio_net: vdpa: update MAC address when it is generated by virtio-net

When the MAC address is not provided by the vdpa device virtio_net
driver assigns a random one without notifying the device.
The consequence, in the case of mlx5_vdpa, is the internal routing
tables of the device are not updated and this can block the
communication between two namespaces.

To fix this problem, use virtnet_send_command(VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC)
to set the address from virtnet_probe() when the MAC address is
randomly assigned from virtio_net.

While I was testing this change I found 3 other bugs in vdpa_sim_net:

- vdpa_sim_net sets the VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC even if no MAC address is
  provided. So virtio_net doesn't generate a random MAC address and
  the MAC address appears to be 00:00:00:00:00:00

- vdpa_sim_net never processes the command and virtnet_send_command()
  hangs in an infinite loop. To avoid a kernel crash add a timeout
  in the loop.

- To allow vdpa_sim_net to process the command, replace the cpu_relax()
  in the loop by a schedule(). vdpa_sim_net uses a workqueue to process
  the queue, and if we don't allow the kernel to schedule, the queue
  is not processed and the loop is infinite.

Laurent Vivier (4):
  virtio_net: notify MAC address change on device initialization
  virtio_net: add a timeout in virtnet_send_command()
  vdpa_sim_net: don't always set VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC
  virtio_net: fix virtnet_send_command() with vdpa_sim_net

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c             | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_net.c |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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2.39.0