Re: [PATCH 4.19.y] net: dsa: mt7530: disable learning on standalone ports

From: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
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	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19.y] net: dsa: mt7530: disable learning on standalone ports
Date: Fri,  3 Sep 2021 17:14:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210903091430.2209627-1-dqfext@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YTBoDaYDJfBz3YzN@kroah.com>

On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 07:58:37AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 01:36:19PM +0800, DENG Qingfang wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 12:19:23PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:57:53PM +0800, DENG Qingfang wrote:
> > > > Standalone ports should have address learning disabled, according to
> > > > the documentation:
> > > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14-rc7/networking/dsa/dsa.html#bridge-layer
> > > > dsa_switch_ops on 5.10 or earlier does not have .port_bridge_flags
> > > > function so it has to be done differently.
> > > > 
> > > > I've identified an issue related to this.
> > > 
> > > What issue is that?  Where was it reported?
> > 
> > See Florian's message here
> > https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20210317003549.3964522-2-f.fainelli@gmail.com/
> 
> THat is just the patch changelog text, or is it unique to this
> stable-only patch?  It is not obvious at all.

The issue is with all DSA drivers that do not disable address learning
on standalone ports.

"With learning enabled we would end up with the switch having
incorrectly learned the address of the CPU port which typically results
in a complete break down of network connectivity until the address
learned ages out and gets re-learned, from the correct port this time."

> 
> > > > > 2. A partial backport of this patch?
> > > > 
> > > > The other part does not actually fix anything.
> > > 
> > > Then why is it not ok to just take the whole thing?
> > > 
> > > When backporting not-identical-patches, something almost always goes
> > > wrong, so we prefer to take the original commit when ever possible.
> > 
> > Okay. MDB and tag ops can be backported as is, and broadcast/multicast
> > flooding can be implemented in .port_egress_floods. 
> 
> So what are we supposed to do here?

Function port_egress_floods is refactored to port_bridge_flags in commit
a8b659e7ff75 ("net: dsa: act as passthrough for bridge port flags"). I can
backport the mt7530_port_bridge_flags function as port_egress_floods.

> 
> totally confused,
> 
> greg k-h

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