mainlining shenanigans
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The Felix driver declares FDB isolation but puts all standalone ports in
VID 0. This is mostly problem-free as discussed with Alvin here:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20220302191417.1288145-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com/#24763870
however there is one catch. DSA still thinks that FDB entries are
installed on the CPU port as many times as there are user ports, and
this is problematic when multiple user ports share the same MAC address.
Consider the default case where all user ports inherit their MAC address
from the DSA master, and then the user runs:
ip link set swp0 address 00:01:02:03:04:05
The above will make dsa_slave_set_mac_address() call
dsa_port_standalone_host_fdb_add() for 00:01:02:03:04:05 in port 0's
standalone database, and dsa_port_standalone_host_fdb_del() for the old
address of swp0, again in swp0's standalone database.
Both the ->port_fdb_add() and ->port_fdb_del() will be propagated down
to the felix driver, which will end up deleting the old MAC address from
the CPU port. But this is still in use by other user ports, so we end up
breaking unicast termination for them.
There isn't a problem in the fact that DSA keeps track of host
standalone addresses in the individual database of each user port: some
drivers like sja1105 need this. There also isn't a problem in the fact
that some drivers choose the same VID/FID for all standalone ports.
It is just that the deletion of these host addresses must be delayed
until they are known to not be in use any longer, and only the driver
has this knowledge. Since DSA keeps these addresses in &cpu_dp->fdbs and
&cpu_db->mdbs, it is just a matter of walking over those lists and see
whether the same MAC address is present on the CPU port in the port db
of another user port.
I have considered reusing the generic dsa_port_walk_fdbs() and
dsa_port_walk_mdbs() schemes for this, but locking makes it difficult.
In the ->port_fdb_add() method and co, &dp->addr_lists_lock is held, but
dsa_port_walk_fdbs() also acquires that lock. Also, even assuming that
we introduce an unlocked variant of the address iterator, we'd still
need some relatively complex data structures, and a void *ctx in the
dsa_fdb_walk_cb_t which we don't currently pass, such that drivers are
able to figure out, after iterating, whether the same MAC address is or
isn't present in the port db of another port.
All the above, plus the fact that I expect other drivers to follow the
same model as felix where all standalone ports use the same FID, made me
conclude that a generic method provided by DSA is necessary:
dsa_fdb_present_in_other_db() and the mdb equivalent. Felix calls this
from the ->port_fdb_del() handler for the CPU port, when the database
was classified to either a port db, or a LAG db.
For symmetry, we also call this from ->port_fdb_add(), because if the
address was installed once, then installing it a second time serves no
purpose: it's already in hardware in VID 0 and it affects all standalone
ports.
This change moves dsa_db_equal() from switch.c to dsa.c, since it now
has one more caller.
Fixes:
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