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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 net-next 10/24] net: dsa: Unset vlan_filtering when ports leave the bridge
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On 12/04/2019 18:28, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> When ports are standalone (after they left the bridge), they should have
> no VLAN filtering semantics (they should pass all traffic to the CPU).

The reset of the commit message is fine but this particular sentence
sort of conflicts with the fact that we set NETIF_F_VLAN_RX_CTAG after
my recent changes in order to support standalone ports + bridge ports w/
VLAN filtering on. What this feature flag means is that ingress VLAN
filtering is active/supported.

On that particular topic this also means that for things like tcpdump to
keep working on standalone ports while we have bridged ports w/ VLAN
filtering turned on, we might have to re-configure how the switch
performs ingress VLAN filtering checking when we have a standalone port
in promiscuous mode. On BCM53xx we can achieve that by having the CPU
port be part of all VLANs (there is a shorthand register for that
purpose) and doing ingress VID checking + copy violated frames to CPU
port. Food for thought...

> Currently this is not true for switchdev drivers, because the bridge
> "forgets" to unset that.
>
> Normally one would think that doing this at the bridge layer would be a
> better idea, i.e. call br_vlan_filter_toggle() from br_del_if(), similar
> to how nbp_vlan_init() is called from br_add_if().
>
> However what complicates that approach, and makes this one preferable,
> is the fact that for the bridge core, vlan_filtering is a per-bridge
> setting, whereas for switchdev/DSA it is per-port. Also there are
> switches where the setting is per the entire device, and unsetting
> vlan_filtering one by one, for each leaving port, would not be possible
> from the bridge core without a certain level of awareness. So do this in
> DSA and let drivers be unaware of it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Florian

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