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    net: create a netdev notifier for DSA to reject PTP on DSA master · 88c0a6b5
    Vladimir Oltean authored
    The fact that PTP 2-step TX timestamping is broken on DSA switches if
    the master also timestamps the same packets is documented by commit
    f685e609 ("net: dsa: Deny PTP on master if switch supports it").
    We attempt to help the users avoid shooting themselves in the foot by
    making DSA reject the timestamping ioctls on an interface that is a DSA
    master, and the switch tree beneath it contains switches which are aware
    of PTP.
    
    The only problem is that there isn't an established way of intercepting
    ndo_eth_ioctl calls, so DSA creates avoidable burden upon the network
    stack by creating a struct dsa_netdevice_ops with overlaid function
    pointers that are manually checked from the relevant call sites. There
    used to be 2 such dsa_netdevice_ops, but now, ndo_eth_ioctl is the only
    one left.
    
    There is an ongoing effort to migrate driver-visible hardware timestamping
    control from the ndo_eth_ioctl() based API to a new ndo_hwtstamp_set()
    model, but DSA actively prevents that migration, since dsa_master_ioctl()
    is currently coded to manually call the master's legacy ndo_eth_ioctl(),
    and so, whenever a network device driver would be converted to the new
    API, DSA's restrictions would be circumvented, because any device could
    be used as a DSA master.
    
    The established way for unrelated modules to react on a net device event
    is via netdevice notifiers. So we create a new notifier which gets
    called whenever there is an attempt to change hardware timestamping
    settings on a device.
    
    Finally, there is another reason why a netdev notifier will be a good
    idea, besides strictly DSA, and this has to do with PHY timestamping.
    
    With ndo_eth_ioctl(), all MAC drivers must manually call
    phy_has_hwtstamp() before deciding whether to act upon SIOCSHWTSTAMP,
    otherwise they must pass this ioctl to the PHY driver via
    phy_mii_ioctl().
    
    With the new ndo_hwtstamp_set() API, it will be desirable to simply not
    make any calls into the MAC device driver when timestamping should be
    performed at the PHY level.
    
    But there exist drivers, such as the lan966x switch, which need to
    install packet traps for PTP regardless of whether they are the layer
    that provides the hardware timestamps, or the PHY is. That would be
    impossible to support with the new API.
    
    The proposal there, too, is to introduce a netdev notifier which acts as
    a better cue for switching drivers to add or remove PTP packet traps,
    than ndo_hwtstamp_set(). The one introduced here "almost" works there as
    well, except for the fact that packet traps should only be installed if
    the PHY driver succeeded to enable hardware timestamping, whereas here,
    we need to deny hardware timestamping on the DSA master before it
    actually gets enabled. This is why this notifier is called "PRE_", and
    the notifier that would get used for PHY timestamping and packet traps
    would be called NETDEV_CHANGE_HWTSTAMP. This isn't a new concept, for
    example NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER and NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER do the same thing.
    
    In expectation of future netlink UAPI, we also pass a non-NULL extack
    pointer to the netdev notifier, and we make DSA populate it with an
    informative reason for the rejection. To avoid making it go to waste, we
    make the ioctl-based dev_set_hwtstamp() create a fake extack and print
    the message to the kernel log.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230401191215.tvveoi3lkawgg6g4@skbuf/
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230310164451.ls7bbs6pdzs4m6pw@skbuf/Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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