Linux Ethernet Bridging - Jun 2022 - [Bridge] [PATCH V3 net-next 1/4] net: bridge: add fdb flag to extent locked port feature

>
> I think Hans is testing with mv88e6xxx which dumps entries directly from
> HW via ndo_fdb_dump(). See dsa_slave_port_fdb_do_dump() which sets
> NTF_SELF.
>
> Hans, are you seeing the entry twice? Once with 'master' and once
with
> 'self'?
>
When replacing a locked entry it looks like this:

# bridge fdb show dev eth6 | grep 4c
00:4c:4c:4c:4c:4c vlan 1 master br0 extern_learn offload locked

# bridge fdb replace 00:4c:4c:4c:4c:4c dev eth6 vlan 1 master static ; bridge
fdb show dev eth6 | grep 4c
00:4c:4c:4c:4c:4c vlan 1 self static

The problem is then that the function
br_fdb_find_rcu(br,eth_hdr(skb)->h_source, vid);
, where the h_source and vid is the entry above, does not find the entry.
My hypothesis was then that this is because of the 'self' flag that I
see.

I am thinking that the function dsa_slave_port_fdb_do_dump() is only for
debug, and thus does not really set any flags in the bridge modules FDB,
but then I don't understand why the above find function does not find
the entry?

On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 02:08:41PM +0200, Hans Schultz
wrote:
> >
> > I think Hans is testing with mv88e6xxx which dumps entries directly
from
> > HW via ndo_fdb_dump(). See dsa_slave_port_fdb_do_dump() which sets
> > NTF_SELF.
> >
> > Hans, are you seeing the entry twice? Once with 'master' and
once with
> > 'self'?
> >
> 
> When replacing a locked entry it looks like this:
> 
> # bridge fdb show dev eth6 | grep 4c
> 00:4c:4c:4c:4c:4c vlan 1 master br0 extern_learn offload locked
> 
> # bridge fdb replace 00:4c:4c:4c:4c:4c dev eth6 vlan 1 master static ;
bridge fdb show dev eth6 | grep 4c
> 00:4c:4c:4c:4c:4c vlan 1 self static
This output means that the FDB entry was deleted from the bridge driver
FDB.
> 
> The problem is then that the function
> br_fdb_find_rcu(br,eth_hdr(skb)->h_source, vid);
> , where the h_source and vid is the entry above, does not find the entry.
> My hypothesis was then that this is because of the 'self' flag that
I
> see.
br_fdb_find_rcu() does a lookup in the bridge driver FDB, but per the
output above, the entry isn't there for some reason. It's only in HW.

Can it be that you driver is deleting these entries from the bridge
driver FDB via SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL_TO_BRIDGE for some reason?
> 
> I am thinking that the function dsa_slave_port_fdb_do_dump() is only for
> debug, and thus does not really set any flags in the bridge modules FDB,
> but then I don't understand why the above find function does not find
> the entry?