The pch_can driver is for a companion chip to the Intel Atom E600
series processors. These are 32-bit x86 processors so the driver is
only needed on X86_32. Add COMPILE_TEST as an alternative, so that the
driver can still be build-tested elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
The only driver based on MSCAN at the moment is for PPC machines,
so it makes no sense to present the menu on M68K. The menu will always
be empty there.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
The at91_can driver is AT91-specific so it should depend on ARCH_AT91
rather than just ARM. Add COMPILE_TEST as an alternative, so that the
driver can still be build-tested elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251x.c:953:7-27: ERROR: Threaded IRQ with no primary handler requested without IRQF_ONESHOT
Make sure threaded IRQs without a primary handler are always request with
IRQF_ONESHOT
Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/irqf_oneshot.cocci
CC: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
CC: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.
Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To be future-proof and for better readability the time comparisons are modified
to use time_after() instead of raw math.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To be future-proof and for better readability the time comparisons are modified
to use time_after() instead of raw math.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Function mlx4_en_set_channels() stops running ports before performing the
requested action. In that case local variable 'port_up' is set so that the
port is restarted at the end of the function, however, in case the port was
not stopped, variable 'port_up' is left uninitialized and the behaviour is
undetermined. Detected by Coverity - CID 751497.
Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
Acked-By: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fix build when BRIDGE_VLAN_FILTERING is not set
Fixes: 2796d0c648 ("bridge: Automatically manage port promiscuous mode")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reported by checkpatch with the following warning:
"WARNING: macros should not use a trailing semicolon"
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Reported by checkpatch with the following message:
"WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations"
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Bjørn Mork says:
====================
cdc_ncm: add buffer tuning and stats using ethtool
Quoting the previous description of this series (skip to the
changelog below if you only want a summary of the changes):
"I have got quite a few reports from frustrated users of OpenWRT
hosts trying to use some powerful LTE modem, but not achieving
full speed. This is typically caused by a combination of
big buffers and little memory, giving in allocation errors and
bad performance as a result.
This series is an attempt to let users adjust the size of these
buffers without having to rebuild the driver.
Patches 1 - 4 are mostly rearranging existing code, in preparing
for the dynamic buffer size changes.
Patch 5 adds userspace control (ab)using the ethtool coalescing
API. This isn't a perfect match, which is the main reason why I
post this series as a RFC.
Patch 6 is an unrelated framing optimization, reducing the
overhead quite a bit and allowing for better use of smaller
buffers.
Patch 7 changes the way we calculate frame padding cutoff. The
problem with big buffers is made much worse by the current padding
strategy where zero padding often can account for more than 90% of
the frames.
Patch 8 add some counters giving some insight into how well the
NCM/MBIM protocol works, supporting further tuning.
Patch 9 reduce the initial maximum buffer size from 32kB to 16kB
in an attempt to make the default better suit all. It is still
possible to tune this up again to the old fixed max, using the
new tuning knobs.
I must admit that I had higher hopes for this series before I
tested it on my own modems. One really unexpected result was
that one of the MBIM modems accepted the new rx buffer size we
set, but happily continued sending buffers of the same size as
before. Needless to say: This did not work very well...
So don't really expect to be able to use any values with any
given device. Firmware implementations are still... I don't
think I have words suitable for a public mailing list.
But I am hoping this will help the many users who have had success
rebuilding the driver with lower fixed limits.
Please test and/or comment!"
Changes:
** RFC -> v1 **
Patch 10 - a follow-up to a comment Joe Perches made in November
2013. I don't always forget :-)
Patch 11 - removes the redundant "connected" driver state, and the
associated .check_connect callbacks.
** v1 -> v2 **
Patch 1 - Better handling of minium rx buffer size, based on feedback
from Oliver Neukum and Enrico Mioso
Patch 5 - fixed locking around timer interval update
Patch 9 - fixed whitespace error
Patch 12 - new fix related to the tuneable tx timer
...and spelling fixes all over the commit messages. I have finally
added a spelling hook, which I'm sure may of you will appreciate :-)
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We can end up with a freshly allocated tx_curr_skb with no frames
in it. In this case it does not make any sense to start the timer.
This avoids the timer periodically trying to start tx when there
is nothing in the queue.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Calling netif_carrier_{on,off} is sufficient. There is no need
to duplicate the carrier state in a driver specific flag.
Acked-by: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Lots of devices request much larger buffers than reasonable. This
cause real problems for users of hosts with limited resources.
Reducing the default buffer size to 16kB for such devices is
a reasonable trade-off between allowing them to aggregate traffic
and avoiding memory exhaustion on resource restrained hosts.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To have an idea of the effects of the protocol coalescing
it's useful to have some counters showing the different
aspects.
Due to the asymmetrical usbnet interface the netdev
rx_bytes counter has been counting real received payload,
while the tx_bytes counter has included the NCM/MBIM
framing overhead. This overhead can be many times the
payload because of the aggressive padding strategy of
this driver, and will vary a lot depending on device
and traffic.
With very few exceptions, users are only interested in
the payload size. Having an somewhat accurate payload
byte counter is particularly important for mobile
broadband devices, which many NCM devices and of course
all MBIM devices are. Users and userspace applications
will use this counter to monitor account quotas.
Having protocol specific counters for the overhead, we are
now able to correct the tx_bytes netdev counter so that
it shows the real payload
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We pad frames larger than X to maximum size for devices which
don't need a ZLP after maximum sized frames. This allows the
device to optimize its transfers for one fixed buffer size.
X was arbitrarily set at 512 bytes regardless of real buffer
maximum, causing extreme overheads due to excessive padding of
larger tx buffers. Limit the padding to at most 3 full USB
packets, still allowing the overhead to payload ratio of 3/1.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Many newer NCM and MBIM devices will request a maximum tx
datagram count which is much smaller than our hard-coded
absolute max. We can reduce the overhead without sacrificing
any of the simplicity for these devices, by simply using the
true negotiated count in when calculated the maximum NTH and
NDP header sizes.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Datagram coalescing is an integral part of the NCM and MBIM
protocols, intended to reduce the interrupt load primarily
on the device end of the USB link. As with all coalescing
solutions, there is a trade-off between buffering and
interrupts.
The current defaults are based on the assumption that device
side buffers should be the limiting factor. However, many
modern high speed LTE modems suffers from buffer-bloat,
making this assumption fail. This results in sub-optimal
performance due to excessive coalescing. And in cases where
such modems are connected to cheap embedded hosts there is
often severe buffer allocation issues, giving very noticeable
performance degradation .
A start on improving this is going from build time hard
coded limits to per device user configurable limits. The
ethtool coalescing API was selected as user interface
because, although the tuned values are buffer sizes, these
settings directly control datagram coalescing.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Finish the rx_max/tx_max setup by flushing buffers and
informing usbnet about the changes. This way, the settings
can be modified while the netdev is up and running.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that we have split out the part of the device setup
which MUST be done with the data interface in altsetting 0,
we can delay the rest of the initialization. This allows us
to move some of post-init buffer size config from bind to
the appropriate setup function.
The purpose of this refactoring is to collect all code
adjusting the rx_max and tx_max buffers in one place, so
that it is easier to call it from multiple call sites.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Split the parts of setup dealing with device initialization from
parts just setting defaults for attributes which might be
changed after initialization.
Some commands of the device initialization are only allowed when
the data interface is in its disabled altsetting, so we must
separate them out of we are to allow rerunning parts of setup.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Split out the part of setup dealing with updating the rx_max
and tx_max buffer sizes so that this code can be reused for
dynamically updating the limits.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Phoebe Buckheister says:
====================
802154: implement link-layer security
This patch series implements 802.15.4-2011 link layer security.
Patches 1 and 2 prepare for llsec by adding data structures to represent the
llsec PIB as specified in 802.15.4-2011. I've changed some structures from
their specification to be more sensible, since 802.15.4 specifies some
structures in not-exactly-useful ways. Nested lists are common, but not very
accessible for netlink methods, and not very fast to traverse when searching
for specific elements either.
Patch 3 implements backends for these structures in mac802154.
Patch 4 and 5 implement the encryption and decryption methods, split from patch
3 to ease review. The encryption and decryption methods are almost entirely
compliant with the specified outgoing/incoming frame procedures. Decryption
deviates from the specification slightly where the specification makes no
sense, i.e. encrypted frames with security level 0 may be sent, but must be
dropped an reception - but transforms for processing such frames are given a
few lines in the standard. I've opted to not drop these frames instead of not
implementing the transforms that wouldn't be used if they were dropped.
Patch 6 links the mac802154 llsec with the SoftMAC devices. This is mainly
init//fini code for llsec context, handling of security subheaders and calling
the encryption/decryption methods.
Patch 7 adds sockopts to 802.15.4 dgram sockets to modifiy outgoing security
parameters on a per-socket basis. Ideally, this would also be available for
sockets on 6lowpan devices, but I'm not sure how to do that nicely.
Patch 8 adds forwarders to the llsec configuration methods for netlink, patch
10 implements these netlink accessors. This is mainly mechanical.
Patch 11, implements a key tracking option for devices that previous patches
haven't, because I'm not entirely sure whether this is the best approach to the
problem. It performs reasonably well though, so I decided to include it as a
separate patch in this series instead of sending an RFC just for this one
option.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The 802.15.4-2011 standard states that for each key, a list of devices
that use this key shall be kept. Previous patches have only considered
two options:
* a device "uses" (or may use) all keys, rendering the list useless
* a device is restricted to a certain set of keys
Another option would be that a device *may* use all keys, but need not
do so, and we are interested in the actual set of keys the device uses.
Recording keys used by any given device may have a noticable performance
impact and might not be needed as often. The common case, in which a
device will not switch keys too often, should still perform well.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds user-visible interfaces for the llsec infrastructure.
For the added methods, the only major difference between all add/remove
implementation lies in how the specific object is parsed, and for dump
requests, how objects are written into netlink messages.
To save on boilerplate code, table dumps are routed through a helper
function that handles netlink dump state, leaving the actual dumping
code to care only about iterating over the table to be dumped and
filling netlink messages. For add/remove methods, the boilerplate
required to work is not quite as large, but still enough to also move
into a local helper.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow datagram sockets to override the security settings of the device
they send from on a per-socket basis. Requires CAP_NET_ADMIN or
CAP_NET_RAW, since raw sockets can send arbitrary packets anyway.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds containers and mutators for the major ieee802154_llsec
structures to mac802154. Most of the (rather simple) ieee802154_llsec
structs are wrapped only to provide an rcu_head for orderly disposal,
but some structs - llsec keys notably - require more complex
bookkeeping.
Since each llsec key may be referenced by a number of llsec key table
entries (with differing key ids, but the same actual key), we want to
save memory and not allocate crypto transforms for each entry in the
table. Thus, the mac802154 llsec key is reference-counted instead.
Further, each key will have four associated crypto transforms - three
CCM transforms for the authsizes 4/8/16 and one CTR transform for
unauthenticated encryption. If we had a CCM* transform that allowed
authsize 0, and authsize as part of requests instead of transforms, this
would not be necessary.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Link-layer security requires AES CCM for authenticated modes and AES CTR
for the unauthenticated encryption mode.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The added structures match 802.15.4-2011 link-layer security PIBs as
closely as is reasonable. Some lists required by the standard were
modeled as bitmaps (frame_types and command_frame_ids in *llsec_key,
802.15.4-2011 7.5/Table 61), since using lists for those seems a bit
excessive and not particularly useful. The DeviceDescriptorHandleList
was inverted and is here a per-device list, since operations on this
list are likely to have both a key and a device at hand, and per-device
lists of keys are shorter than per-key lists of devices.
Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jesse Gross says:
====================
A set of OVS changes for net-next/3.16.
The major change here is a switch from per-CPU to per-NUMA flow
statistics. This improves scalability by reducing kernel overhead
in flow setup and maintenance.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thomas Petazzoni says:
====================
Add DT support for fixed PHYs
Here is a fourth version of the patch set that adds a Device Tree
binding and the related code to support fixed PHYs. I'm hoping to get
this merged in 3.16.
Changes since v3:
* Rebased on top of v3.15-rc5
* In patch "net: phy: decouple PHY id and PHY address in fixed PHY
driver", changed the PHY ID of fixed PHYs from 0xdeadbeef to 0x0,
as suggested by Grant Likely.
* Fixed the !CONFIG_PHY_FIXED case in patch "net: phy: extend fixed
driver with fixed_phy_register()". Noticed by Florian Fainelli.
* Added Acked-by from Grant Likely and Florian Fainelli on patch
"net: phy: extend fixed driver with fixed_phy_register()".
* Reworked the new fixed-link DT binding to be just a sub-node of the
Ethernet MAC node, and not a node referenced by the 'phy'
property. This was requested by Grant Likely.
* Reworked the code implementing the new DT binding to also make it
accept the old, single property based, DT binding.
* Added a patch that actually uses the new fixed link DT binding for
the Armada XP Matrix board.
Changes since v2:
* Rebased on top of v3.14-rc1, and re-tested on hardware.
* Removed the RFC tag, since there seems to be some real interest in
this feature, and the code has gone through several iterations
already.
* The error handling in fixed_phy_register() has been fixed.
Changes since v1:
* Instead of using a 'fixed-link' property inside the Ethernet device
DT node, with a fairly cryptic succession of integer values, we now
use a PHY subnode under the Ethernet device DT node, with explicit
properties to configure the duplex, speed, pause and other PHY
properties.
* The PHY address is automatically allocated by the kernel and no
longer visible in the Device Tree binding.
* The PHY device is created directly when the network driver calls
of_phy_connect_fixed_link(), and associated to the PHY DT node,
which allows the existing of_phy_connect() function to work,
without the need to use the deprecated of_phy_connect_fixed_link().
Posts of previous versions:
RFCv1: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg243253.html
RFCv2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-September/196919.html
PATCHv3: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg273117.html
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The Armada XP Matrix board has an Ethernet PHY that isn't configurable
through the MDIO bus, so we use the newly introduced fixed-link PHY DT
binding to represent the PHY of this platform and get network working.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Following the introduction of of_phy_register_fixed_link(), this patch
introduces fixed link support in the mvneta driver, for Marvell Armada
370/XP SOCs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some Ethernet MACs have a "fixed link", and are not connected to a
normal MDIO-managed PHY device. For those situations, a Device Tree
binding allows to describe a "fixed link" using a special PHY node.
This patch adds:
* A documentation for the fixed PHY Device Tree binding.
* An of_phy_is_fixed_link() function that an Ethernet driver can call
on its PHY phandle to find out whether it's a fixed link PHY or
not. It should typically be used to know if
of_phy_register_fixed_link() should be called.
* An of_phy_register_fixed_link() function that instantiates the
fixed PHY into the PHY subsystem, so that when the driver calls
of_phy_connect(), the PHY device associated to the OF node will be
found.
These two additional functions also support the old fixed-link Device
Tree binding used on PowerPC platforms, so that ultimately, the
network device drivers for those platforms could be converted to use
of_phy_is_fixed_link() and of_phy_register_fixed_link() instead of
of_phy_connect_fixed_link(), while keeping compatibility with their
respective Device Tree bindings.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The existing fixed_phy_add() function has several drawbacks that
prevents it from being used as is for OF-based declaration of fixed
PHYs:
* The address of the PHY on the fake bus needs to be passed, while a
dynamic allocation is desired.
* Since the phy_device instantiation is post-poned until the next
mdiobus scan, there is no way to associate the fixed PHY with its
OF node, which later prevents of_phy_connect() from finding this
fixed PHY from a given OF node.
To solve this, this commit introduces fixed_phy_register(), which will
allocate an available PHY address, add the PHY using fixed_phy_add()
and instantiate the phy_device structure associated with the provided
OF node.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Until now, the fixed_phy_add() function was taking as argument
'phy_id', which was used both as the PHY address on the fake fixed
MDIO bus, and as the PHY id, as available in the MII_PHYSID1 and
MII_PHYSID2 registers. However, those two informations are completely
unrelated.
This patch decouples them. The PHY id of fixed PHYs is hardcoded to be
0x0. Ideally, a really reserved value would be nicer, but there
doesn't seem to be an easy of making sure a dummy value can be
assigned to the Linux kernel for such usage.
The PHY address remains passed by the caller of phy_fixed_add().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Vlad Yasevich says:
====================
bridge: Non-promisc bridge ports support
This series adds functionality to the bridge device to enable
operations without setting all ports to promiscuous mode.
The basic concept is this. The bridge keeps track of the ports
that support learning and flooding packets to unknown destinations.
We call these ports auto-discovery ports since they automatically
discover who is behind them through learning and flooding.
If flooding and learning are disabled via flags, then the port
requires static configuration to tell it which mac addresses
are behind it. This is accomplished through adding of fdbs.
These fdbs should be static as dynamic fdbs can expire and systems
will become unreachable due to lack of flooding.
If the user marks all ports as needing static configuration then
we can safely make them non-promiscuous since we will know all the
information about them.
If the user leaves only 1 port as automatic, then we can mark
that port as not-promiscuous as well. One could think of
this a edge relay similar to what's support by embedded switches
in SRIOV devices. Since we have all the information about the
other ports, we can just program the mac addresses into the
single automatic port to receive all necessary traffic.
More information about this is patch 6.
In other cases, we keep all ports promiscuous as before.
There are some other cases when promiscuous mode has to be turned
back on. One is when the bridge itself if placed in promiscuous
mode (user sets promisc flag). The other is if vlan filtering is
turned off. Since this is the default configuration, the default
bridge operation is not changed.
Changes since v2:
- White space and spelling fixes from Michael Tsirkin
- Squash patches 6, 7 and 8 to prevent bisect breakage.
Changes since v1:
- Address issues rasied by Stephen Heminger
- Address initializer comments raised by Sergey Shtylyov
- Rebased recent net-next.
Changes since rfc v2:
- Better description of in the commit logs
- Leave port in promiscuous mode if IFF_UNICAST_FLT is disabled on the
device.
- Fix issue with flag masking
- Rework patch ordering a bit.
Changes since rfc v1:
- Removed private list. We now traverse the fdb hashtable itself
to write necessary addresses to the ports (Stephen's concern)
- Add learning flag to the mask for flags that decides if the port
is 'auto' or not (suggest by MST and Jamal).
- Simplified tracking of such ports at the cost of a loop over all
ports (suggested by MST)
I've played with quite a large number of ports and the current approach
seems to work fairly well.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There exist configurations where the administrator or another management
entity has the foreknowledge of all the mac addresses of end systems
that are being bridged together.
In these environments, the administrator can statically configure known
addresses in the bridge FDB and disable flooding and learning on ports.
This makes it possible to turn off promiscuous mode on the interfaces
connected to the bridge.
Here is why disabling flooding and learning allows us to control
promiscuity:
Consider port X. All traffic coming into this port from outside the
bridge (ingress) will be either forwarded through other ports of the
bridge (egress) or dropped. Forwarding (egress) is defined by FDB
entries and by flooding in the event that no FDB entry exists.
In the event that flooding is disabled, only FDB entries define
the egress. Once learning is disabled, only static FDB entries
provided by a management entity define the egress. If we provide
information from these static FDBs to the ingress port X, then we'll
be able to accept all traffic that can be successfully forwarded and
drop all the other traffic sooner without spending CPU cycles to
process it.
Another way to define the above is as following equations:
ingress = egress + drop
expanding egress
ingress = static FDB + learned FDB + flooding + drop
disabling flooding and learning we a left with
ingress = static FDB + drop
By adding addresses from the static FDB entries to the MAC address
filter of an ingress port X, we fully define what the bridge can
process without dropping and can thus turn off promiscuous mode,
thus dropping packets sooner.
There have been suggestions that we may want to allow learning
and update the filters with learned addresses as well. This
would require mac-level authentication similar to 802.1x to
prevent attacks against the hw filters as they are limited
resource.
Additionally, if the user places the bridge device in promiscuous mode,
all ports are placed in promiscuous mode regardless of the changes
to flooding and learning.
Since the above functionality depends on full static configuration,
we have also require that vlan filtering be enabled to take
advantage of this. The reason is that the bridge has to be
able to receive and process VLAN-tagged frames and the there
are only 2 ways to accomplish this right now: promiscuous mode
or vlan filtering.
Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
