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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: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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