net: dsa: tag_8021q: manage RX VLANs dynamically at bridge join/leave time
There has been at least one wasted opportunity for tag_8021q to be used by a driver: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/20200710113611.3398-3-kurt@linutronix.de/#2484272 because of a design decision: the declared purpose of tag_8021q is to offer source port/switch identification for a tagging driver for packets coming from a switch with no hardware DSA tagging support. It is not intended to provide VLAN-based port isolation, because its first user, sja1105, had another mechanism for bridging domain isolation, the L2 Forwarding Table. So even if 2 ports are in the same VLAN but they are separated via the L2 Forwarding Table, they will not communicate with one another. The L2 Forwarding Table is managed by the sja1105_bridge_join() and sja1105_bridge_leave() methods. As a consequence, today tag_8021q does not bother too much with hooking into .port_bridge_join() and .port_bridge_leave() because that would introduce yet another degree of freedom, it just iterates statically through all ports of a switch and adds the RX VLAN of one port to all the others. In this way, whenever .port_bridge_join() is called, bridging will magically work because the RX VLANs are already installed everywhere they need to be. This is not to say that the reason for the change in this patch is to satisfy the hellcreek and similar use cases, that is merely a nice side effect. Instead it is to make sja1105 cross-chip links work properly over a DSA link. For context, sja1105 today supports a degenerate form of cross-chip bridging, where the switches are interconnected through their CPU ports ("disjoint trees" topology). There is some code which has been generalized into dsa_8021q_crosschip_link_{add,del}, but it is not enough, and frankly it is impossible to build upon that. Real multi-switch DSA trees, like daisy chains or H trees, which have actual DSA links, do not work. The problem is that sja1105 is unlike mv88e6xxx, and does not have a PVT for cross-chip bridging, which is a table by which the local switch can select the forwarding domain for packets from a certain ingress switch ID and source port. The sja1105 switches cannot parse their own DSA tags, because, well, they don't really have support for DSA tags, it's all VLANs. So to make something like cross-chip bridging between sw0p0 and sw1p0 to work over the sw0p3/sw1p3 DSA link to work with sja1105 in the topology below: | | sw0p0 sw0p1 sw0p2 sw0p3 sw1p3 sw1p2 sw1p1 sw1p0 [ user ] [ user ] [ cpu ] [ dsa ] ---- [ dsa ] [ cpu ] [ user ] [ user ] we need to ask ourselves 2 questions: (1) how should the L2 Forwarding Table be managed? (2) how should the VLAN Lookup Table be managed? i.e. what should prevent packets from going to unwanted ports? Since as mentioned, there is no PVT, the L2 Forwarding Table only contains forwarding rules for local ports. So we can say "all user ports are allowed to forward to all CPU ports and all DSA links". If we allow forwarding to DSA links unconditionally, this means we must prevent forwarding using the VLAN Lookup Table. This is in fact asymmetric with what we do for tag_8021q on ports local to the same switch, and it matters because now that we are making tag_8021q a core DSA feature, we need to hook into .crosschip_bridge_join() to add/remove the tag_8021q VLANs. So for symmetry it makes sense to manage the VLANs for local forwarding in the same way as cross-chip forwarding. Note that there is a very precise reason why tag_8021q hooks into dsa_switch_bridge_join() which acts at the cross-chip notifier level, and not at a higher level such as dsa_port_bridge_join(). We need to install the RX VLAN of the newly joining port into the VLAN table of all the existing ports across the tree that are part of the same bridge, and the notifier already does the iteration through the switches for us. Signed-off-by:Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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