net: bridge: add helper to replay port and host-joined mdb entries

I have a system with DSA ports, and udhcpcd is configured to bring
interfaces up as soon as they are created.

I create a bridge as follows:

ip link add br0 type bridge

As soon as I create the bridge and udhcpcd brings it up, I also have
avahi which automatically starts sending IPv6 packets to advertise some
local services, and because of that, the br0 bridge joins the following
IPv6 groups due to the code path detailed below:

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br_dev_xmit
-> br_multicast_rcv
   -> br_ip6_multicast_add_group
      -> __br_multicast_add_group
         -> br_multicast_host_join
            -> br_mdb_notify

This is all fine, but inside br_mdb_notify we have br_mdb_switchdev_host
hooked up, and switchdev will attempt to offload the host joined groups
to an empty list of ports. Of course nobody offloads them.

Then when we add a port to br0:

ip link set swp0 master br0

the bridge doesn't replay the host-joined MDB entries from br_add_if,
and eventually the host joined addresses expire, and a switchdev
notification for deleting it is emitted, but surprise, the original
addition was already completely missed.

The strategy to address this problem is to replay the MDB entries (both
the port ones and the host joined ones) when the new port joins the
bridge, similar to what vxlan_fdb_replay does (in that case, its FDB can
be populated and only then attached to a bridge that you offload).
However there are 2 possibilities: the addresses can be 'pushed' by the
bridge into the port, or the port can 'pull' them from the bridge.

Considering that in the general case, the new port can be really late to
the party, and there may have been many other switchdev ports that
already received the initial notification, we would like to avoid
delivering duplicate events to them, since they might misbehave. And
currently, the bridge calls the entire switchdev notifier chain, whereas
for replaying it should just call the notifier block of the new guy.
But the bridge doesn't know what is the new guy's notifier block, it
just knows where the switchdev notifier chain is. So for simplification,
we make this a driver-initiated pull for now, and the notifier block is
passed as an argument.

To emulate the calling context for mdb objects (deferred and put on the
blocking notifier chain), we must iterate under RCU protection through
the bridge's mdb entries, queue them, and only call them once we're out
of the RCU read-side critical section.

There was some opportunity for reuse between br_mdb_switchdev_host_port,
br_mdb_notify and the newly added br_mdb_queue_one in how the switchdev
mdb object is created, so a helper was created.

Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/switchdev.h b/include/net/switchdev.h
index b7fc7d0f54e2..8c3218177136 100644
--- a/include/net/switchdev.h
+++ b/include/net/switchdev.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ enum switchdev_obj_id {
 };
 
 struct switchdev_obj {
+	struct list_head list;
 	struct net_device *orig_dev;
 	enum switchdev_obj_id id;
 	u32 flags;