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    net: bridge: switchdev: Skip MDB replays of deferred events on offload · dc489f86
    Tobias Waldekranz authored
    Before this change, generation of the list of MDB events to replay
    would race against the creation of new group memberships, either from
    the IGMP/MLD snooping logic or from user configuration.
    
    While new memberships are immediately visible to walkers of
    br->mdb_list, the notification of their existence to switchdev event
    subscribers is deferred until a later point in time. So if a replay
    list was generated during a time that overlapped with such a window,
    it would also contain a replay of the not-yet-delivered event.
    
    The driver would thus receive two copies of what the bridge internally
    considered to be one single event. On destruction of the bridge, only
    a single membership deletion event was therefore sent. As a
    consequence of this, drivers which reference count memberships (at
    least DSA), would be left with orphan groups in their hardware
    database when the bridge was destroyed.
    
    This is only an issue when replaying additions. While deletion events
    may still be pending on the deferred queue, they will already have
    been removed from br->mdb_list, so no duplicates can be generated in
    that scenario.
    
    To a user this meant that old group memberships, from a bridge in
    which a port was previously attached, could be reanimated (in
    hardware) when the port joined a new bridge, without the new bridge's
    knowledge.
    
    For example, on an mv88e6xxx system, create a snooping bridge and
    immediately add a port to it:
    
        root@infix-06-0b-00:~$ ip link add dev br0 up type bridge mcast_snooping 1 && \
        > ip link set dev x3 up master br0
    
    And then destroy the bridge:
    
        root@infix-06-0b-00:~$ ip link del dev br0
        root@infix-06-0b-00:~$ mvls atu
        ADDRESS             FID  STATE      Q  F  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a
        DEV:0 Marvell 88E6393X
        33:33:00:00:00:6a     1  static     -  -  0  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
        33:33:ff:87:e4:3f     1  static     -  -  0  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
        ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff     1  static     -  -  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a
        root@infix-06-0b-00:~$
    
    The two IPv6 groups remain in the hardware database because the
    port (x3) is notified of the host's membership twice: once via the
    original event and once via a replay. Since only a single delete
    notification is sent, the count remains at 1 when the bridge is
    destroyed.
    
    Then add the same port (or another port belonging to the same hardware
    domain) to a new bridge, this time with snooping disabled:
    
        root@infix-06-0b-00:~$ ip link add dev br1 up type bridge mcast_snooping 0 && \
        > ip link set dev x3 up master br1
    
    All multicast, including the two IPv6 groups from br0, should now be
    flooded, according to the policy of br1. But instead the old
    memberships are still active in the hardware database, causing the
    switch to only forward traffic to those groups towards the CPU (port
    0).
    
    Eliminate the race in two steps:
    
    1. Grab the write-side lock of the MDB while generating the replay
       list.
    
    This prevents new memberships from showing up while we are generating
    the replay list. But it leaves the scenario in which a deferred event
    was already generated, but not delivered, before we grabbed the
    lock. Therefore:
    
    2. Make sure that no deferred version of a replay event is already
       enqueued to the switchdev deferred queue, before adding it to the
       replay list, when replaying additions.
    
    Fixes: 4f2673b3 ("net: bridge: add helper to replay port and host-joined mdb entries")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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