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Horatiu Vultur
419dba8a49 net: bridge: Add checks for enabling the STP.
It is not possible to have the MRP and STP running at the same time on the
bridge, therefore add check when enabling the STP to check if MRP is already
enabled. In that case return error.

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-27 11:40:25 -07:00
Madhuparna Bhowmik
33c4acbe2f bridge: br_stp: Use built-in RCU list checking
list_for_each_entry_rcu() has built-in RCU and lock checking.

Pass cond argument to list_for_each_entry_rcu() to silence
false lockdep warning when CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST is enabled
by default.

Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-02-19 11:13:43 -08:00
Vivien Didelot
de1799667b net: bridge: add STP xstats
This adds rx_bpdu, tx_bpdu, rx_tcn, tx_tcn, transition_blk,
transition_fwd xstats counters to the bridge ports copied over via
netlink, providing useful information for STP.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
2019-12-14 20:02:36 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
2874c5fd28 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
Nikolay Aleksandrov
9289906313 net: bridge: add notifications for the bridge dev on vlan change
Currently the bridge device doesn't generate any notifications upon vlan
modifications on itself because it doesn't use the generic bridge
notifications.
With the recent changes we know if anything was modified in the vlan config
thus we can generate a notification when necessary for the bridge device
so add support to br_ifinfo_notify() similar to how other combined
functions are done - if port is present it takes precedence, otherwise
notify about the bridge. I've explicitly marked the locations where the
notification should be always for the port by setting bridge to NULL.
I've also taken the liberty to rearrange each modified function's local
variables in reverse xmas tree as well.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-11-02 15:53:40 +09:00
Nikolay Aleksandrov
f7cdee8a79 bridge: move to workqueue gc
Move the fdb garbage collector to a workqueue which fires at least 10
milliseconds apart and cleans chain by chain allowing for other tasks
to run in the meantime. When having thousands of fdbs the system is much
more responsive. Most importantly remove the need to check if the
matched entry has expired in __br_fdb_get that causes false-sharing and
is completely unnecessary if we cleanup entries, at worst we'll get 10ms
of traffic for that entry before it gets deleted.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-06 22:53:13 -05:00
Vivien Didelot
34d8acd8aa net: bridge: shorten ageing time on topology change
802.1D [1] specifies that the bridges must use a short value to age out
dynamic entries in the Filtering Database for a period, once a topology
change has been communicated by the root bridge.

Add a bridge_ageing_time member in the net_bridge structure to store the
bridge ageing time value configured by the user (ioctl/netlink/sysfs).

If we are using in-kernel STP, shorten the ageing time value to twice
the forward delay used by the topology when the topology change flag is
set. When the flag is cleared, restore the configured ageing time.

[1] "8.3.5 Notifying topology changes ",
    http://profesores.elo.utfsm.cl/~agv/elo309/doc/802.1D-1998.pdf

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-12-10 21:28:28 -05:00
Vivien Didelot
8384b5f5b2 net: bridge: add helper to set topology change
Add a __br_set_topology_change helper to set the topology change value.

This can be later extended to add actions when the topology change flag
is set or cleared.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-12-10 21:27:23 -05:00
Vivien Didelot
82dd4332aa net: bridge: add helper to offload ageing time
The SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_BRIDGE_AGEING_TIME switchdev attr is actually set
when initializing a bridge port, and when configuring the bridge ageing
time from ioctl/netlink/sysfs.

Add a __set_ageing_time helper to offload the ageing time to physical
switches, and add the SWITCHDEV_F_DEFER flag since it can be called
under bridge lock.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-12-10 21:27:23 -05:00
Vivien Didelot
9e0b27fe5a net: bridge: br_set_ageing_time takes a clock_t
Change the ageing_time type in br_set_ageing_time() from u32 to what it
is expected to be, i.e. a clock_t.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-25 10:30:03 -07:00
Haishuang Yan
5e263f7126 bridge: Allow set bridge ageing time when switchdev disabled
When NET_SWITCHDEV=n, switchdev_port_attr_set will return -EOPNOTSUPP,
we should ignore this error code and continue to set the ageing time.

Fixes: c62987bbd8 ("bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to switchdev")
Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Acked-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-30 15:38:13 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
4c656c13b2 bridge: allow zero ageing time
This fixes a regression in the bridge ageing time caused by:
commit c62987bbd8 ("bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to switchdev")

There are users of Linux bridge which use the feature that if ageing time
is set to 0 it causes entries to never expire. See:
  https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge

For a pure software bridge, it is unnecessary for the code to have
arbitrary restrictions on what values are allowable.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-11 14:58:58 -05:00
Vivien Didelot
7c25b16dbb net: bridge: log port STP state on change
Remove the shared br_log_state function and print the info directly in
br_set_state, where the net_bridge_port state is actually changed.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Acked-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-18 14:20:08 -05:00
Ido Schimmel
6ff64f6f92 switchdev: Pass original device to port netdev driver
switchdev drivers need to know the netdev on which the switchdev op was
invoked. For example, the STP state of a VLAN interface configured on top
of a port can change while being member in a bridge. In this case, the
underlying driver should only change the STP state of that particular
VLAN and not of all the VLANs configured on the port.

However, current switchdev infrastructure only passes the port netdev down
to the driver. Solve that by passing the original device down to the
driver as part of the required switchdev object / attribute.

This doesn't entail any change in current switchdev drivers. It simply
enables those supporting stacked devices to know the originating device
and act accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-12-15 11:58:20 -05:00
Ido Schimmel
bbe14f5429 switchdev: bridge: Check return code is not EOPNOTSUPP
When NET_SWITCHDEV=n, switchdev_port_attr_set simply returns EOPNOTSUPP.
In this case we should not emit errors and warnings to the kernel log.

Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Fixes: 0bc05d585d ("switchdev: allow caller to explicitly request
attr_set as deferred")
Fixes: 6ac311ae8b ("Adding switchdev ageing notification on port
bridged")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-11-16 14:56:03 -05:00
Vlad Yasevich
8a921265e2 Revert "bridge: Allow forward delay to be cfgd when STP enabled"
This reverts commit 34c2d9fb04.

There are 2 reasons for this revert:
 1)  The commit in question doesn't do what it says it does.  The
     description reads: "Allow bridge forward delay to be configured
     when Spanning Tree is enabled."  This was already the case before
     the commit was made.  What the commit actually do was disallow
     invalid values or 'forward_delay' when STP was turned off.

 2)  The above change was actually a change in the user observed
     behavior and broke things like libvirt and other network configs
     that set 'forward_delay' to 0 without enabling STP.  The value
     of 0 is actually used when STP is turned off to immediately mark
     the bridge as forwarding.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-11-10 15:41:36 -05:00
Jiri Pirko
0bc05d585d switchdev: allow caller to explicitly request attr_set as deferred
Caller should know if he can call attr_set directly (when holding RTNL)
or if he has to defer the att_set processing for later.

This also allows drivers to sleep inside attr_set and report operation
status back to switchdev core. Switchdev core then warns if status is
not ok, instead of silent errors happening in drivers.

Benefit from newly introduced switchdev deferred ops infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-15 06:09:48 -07:00
Scott Feldman
c62987bbd8 bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to switchdev
Use SWITCHDEV_F_SKIP_EOPNOTSUPP to skip over ports in bridge that don't
support setting ageing_time (or setting bridge attrs in general).

If push fails, don't update ageing_time in bridge and return err to user.

If push succeeds, update ageing_time in bridge and run gc_timer now to
recalabrate when to run gc_timer next, based on new ageing_time.

Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-12 05:20:20 -07:00
Jiri Pirko
1f86839874 switchdev: rename SWITCHDEV_ATTR_* enum values to SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_*
To be aligned with obj.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-03 04:49:37 -07:00
Ian Wilson
34c2d9fb04 bridge: Allow forward delay to be cfgd when STP enabled
Allow bridge forward delay to be configured when Spanning Tree is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ian Wilson <iwilson@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-27 19:09:38 -07:00
Nikolay Aleksandrov
76b91c32dd bridge: stp: when using userspace stp stop kernel hello and hold timers
These should be handled only by the respective STP which is in control.
They become problematic for devices with limited resources with many
ports because the hold_timer is per port and fires each second and the
hello timer fires each 2 seconds even though it's global. While in
user-space STP mode these timers are completely unnecessary so it's better
to keep them off.
Also ensure that when the bridge is up these timers are started only when
running with kernel STP.

Signed-off-by: Satish Ashok <sashok@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-28 23:33:20 -07:00
Nikolay Aleksandrov
9aa6638216 bridge: multicast: add a comment to br_port_state_selection about blocking state
Add a comment to explain why we're not disabling port's multicast when it
goes in blocking state. Since there's a check in the timer's function which
bypasses the timer if the port's in blocking/disabled state, the timer will
simply expire and stop without sending more queries.

Suggested-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-24 05:40:54 -07:00
Nikolay Aleksandrov
7ce42de189 bridge: multicast: start querier timer when running user-space stp
When STP is running in user-space and querier is configured, the
querier timer is not started when a port goes to a non-blocking state.
This patch unifies the user- and kernel-space stp multicast port enable
path and enables it in all states different from blocking. Note that when a
port goes in BR_STATE_DISABLED it's not enabled because that is handled
in the beginning of the port list loop.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-23 03:29:54 -07:00
Scott Feldman
42275bd8fc switchdev: don't use anonymous union on switchdev attr/obj structs
Older gcc versions (e.g.  gcc version 4.4.6) don't like anonymous unions
which was causing build issues on the newly added switchdev attr/obj
structs.  Fix this by using named union on structs.

Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-13 14:20:59 -04:00
Scott Feldman
3563606258 switchdev: convert STP update to switchdev attr set
STP update is just a settable port attribute, so convert
switchdev_port_stp_update to an attr set.

For DSA, the prepare phase is skipped and STP updates are only done in the
commit phase.  This is because currently the DSA drivers don't need to
allocate any memory for STP updates and the STP update will not fail to HW
(unless something horrible goes wrong on the MDIO bus, in which case the
prepare phase wouldn't have been able to predict anyway).

Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-12 18:43:53 -04:00
Jiri Pirko
ebb9a03a59 switchdev: s/netdev_switch_/switchdev_/ and s/NETDEV_SWITCH_/SWITCHDEV_/
Turned out that "switchdev" sticks. So just unify all related terms to use
this prefix.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-12 18:43:52 -04:00
Scott Feldman
38dcf357ae bridge: call netdev_sw_port_stp_update when bridge port STP status changes
To notify switch driver of change in STP state of bridge port, add new
.ndo op and provide switchdev wrapper func to call ndo op. Use it in bridge
code then.

Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-02 20:01:22 -08:00
Florian Fainelli
775dd692bd net: bridge: add a br_set_state helper function
In preparation for being able to propagate port states to e.g: notifiers
or other kernel parts, do not manipulate the port state directly, but
instead use a helper function which will allow us to do a bit more than
just setting the state.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-01 22:03:50 -04:00
Herbert Xu
be4f154d5e bridge: Clamp forward_delay when enabling STP
At some point limits were added to forward_delay.  However, the
limits are only enforced when STP is enabled.  This created a
scenario where you could have a value outside the allowed range
while STP is disabled, which then stuck around even after STP
is enabled.

This patch fixes this by clamping the value when we enable STP.

I had to move the locking around a bit to ensure that there is
no window where someone could insert a value outside the range
while we're in the middle of enabling STP.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Cheers,
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-12 23:32:14 -04:00
Chris Healy
9a0620133c resubmit bridge: fix message_age_timer calculation
This changes the message_age_timer calculation to use the BPDU's max age as
opposed to the local bridge's max age.  This is in accordance with section
8.6.2.3.2 Step 2 of the 802.1D-1998 sprecification.

With the current implementation, when running with very large bridge
diameters, convergance will not always occur even if a root bridge is
configured to have a longer max age.

Tested successfully on bridge diameters of ~200.

Signed-off-by: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-12 23:30:37 -04:00
stephen hemminger
91bc033c4d bridge: avoid OOPS if root port not found
Bridge can crash while trying to send topology change packet.
This happens if root port can't be found. This was reported by user
but currently unable to reproduce it easily. The STP conditions that cause
this are not known yet, but the problem doesn't have to be fatal.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-30 15:51:08 -04:00
stephen hemminger
1007dd1aa5 bridge: add root port blocking
This is Linux bridge implementation of root port guard.
If BPDU is received from a leaf (edge) port, it should not
be elected as root port.

Why would you want to do this?
If using STP on a bridge and the downstream bridges are not fully
trusted; this prevents a hostile guest for rerouting traffic.

Why not just use netfilter?
Netfilter does not track of follow spanning tree decisions.
It would be difficult and error prone to try and mirror STP
resolution in netfilter module.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-14 20:20:44 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
95c9617472 net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int
Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
Paulius Zaleckas
d9e179ecec bridge: br_log_state() s/entering/entered/
When br_log_state() is reporting state it should say "entered"
istead of "entering" since state at this point is already
changed.

Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-08 00:25:25 -08:00
Joakim Tjernlund
709e1b5cd9 bridge: message age needs to increase, not decrease.
commit bridge: send proper message_age in config BPDU
added this gem:
  bpdu.message_age = (jiffies - root->designated_age)
  p->designated_age = jiffies + bpdu->message_age;
Notice how bpdu->message_age is negated when reassigned to
bpdu.message_age. This causes message age to decrease breaking the
STP protocol.

Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-04 21:57:40 -05:00
Joakim Tjernlund
aaca735f4f bridge: Adjust min age inc for HZ > 256
min age increment needs to round up its min age tick for all
HZ values to guarantee message age is increasing.

Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-04 21:57:39 -05:00
Vitalii Demianets
b03b6dd58c bridge: master device stuck in no-carrier state forever when in user-stp mode
When in user-stp mode, bridge master do not follow state of its slaves, so
after the following sequence of events it can stuck forever in no-carrier
state:
1) turn stp off
2) put all slaves down - master device will follow their state and also go in
no-carrier state
3) turn stp on with bridge-stp script returning 0 (go to the user-stp mode)
Now bridge master won't follow slaves' state and will never reach running
state.

This patch solves the problem by making user-stp and kernel-stp behavior
similar regarding master following slaves' states.

Signed-off-by: Vitalii Demianets <vitas@nppfactor.kiev.ua>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-01 14:05:17 -05:00
stephen hemminger
160d73b845 bridge: minor cleanups
Some minor cleanups that won't impact code:
  1. Remove inline from non-critical functions; compiler will most
     likely inline them anyway.
  2. Make function args const where possible.
  3. Whitespace cleanup

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-22 17:01:13 -07:00
stephen hemminger
4ecb961c8b bridge: add notification over netlink when STP changes state
When STP changes state of interface need to send a new link
message to reflect that change.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-22 17:01:12 -07:00
stephen hemminger
0c03150e7e bridge: send proper message_age in config BPDU
A bridge topology with three systems:

      +------+  +------+
      | A(2) |--| B(1) |
      +------+  +------+
           \    /
          +------+
          | C(3) |
          +------+

What is supposed to happen:
 * bridge with the lowest ID is elected root (for example: B)
 * C detects that A->C is higher cost path and puts in blocking state

What happens. Bridge with lowest id (B) is elected correctly as
root and things start out fine initially. But then config BPDU
doesn't get transmitted from A -> C. Because of that
the link from A-C is transistioned to the forwarding state.

The root cause of this is that the configuration messages
is generated with bogus message age, and dropped before
sending.

In the standardmessage_age is supposed to be:
  the time since the generation of the Configuration BPDU by
  the Root that instigated the generation of this Configuration BPDU.

Reimplement this by recording the timestamp (age + jiffies) when
recording config information. The old code incorrectly used the time
elapsed on the ageing timer which was incorrect.

See also:
  https://bugzilla.vyatta.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7164

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-22 17:01:12 -07:00
stephen hemminger
14f98f258f bridge: range check STP parameters
Apply restrictions on STP parameters based 802.1D 1998 standard.
   * Fixes missing locking in set path cost ioctl
   * Uses common code for both ioctl and sysfs

This is based on an earlier patch Sasikanth V but with overhaul.

Note:
1. It does NOT enforce the restriction on the relationship max_age and
   forward delay or hello time because in existing implementation these are
   set as independant operations.

2. If STP is disabled, there is no restriction on forward delay

3. No restriction on holding time because users use Linux code to act
   as hub or be sticky.

4. Although standard allow 0-255, Linux only allows 0-63 for port priority
   because more bits are reserved for port number.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-04 17:22:29 -07:00
David S. Miller
c337ffb68e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-03-15 15:15:17 -07:00
stephen hemminger
a461c0297f bridge: skip forwarding delay if not using STP
If Spanning Tree Protocol is not enabled, there is no good reason for
the bridge code to wait for the forwarding delay period before enabling
the link. The purpose of the forwarding delay is to allow STP to
learn about other bridges before nominating itself.

The only possible impact is that when starting up a new port
the bridge may flood a packet now, where previously it might have
seen traffic from the other host and preseeded the forwarding table.

Includes change for local variable br already available in that func.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-14 15:06:49 -07:00
stephen hemminger
1faa4356a3 bridge: control carrier based on ports online
This makes the bridge device behave like a physical device.
In earlier releases the bridge always asserted carrier. This
changes the behavior so that bridge device carrier is on only
if one or more ports are in the forwarding state. This
should help IPv6 autoconfiguration, DHCP, and routing daemons.

I did brief testing with Network and Virt manager and they
seem fine, but since this changes behavior of bridge, it should
wait until net-next (2.6.39).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Tested-By: Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-14 14:29:02 -07:00
stephen hemminger
28a16c9796 bridge: change console message interface
Use one set of macro's for all bridge messages.

Note: can't use netdev_XXX macro's because bridge is purely
virtual and has no device parent.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-15 23:10:02 -07:00
Herbert Xu
3fe2d7c70b bridge: Add multicast start/stop hooks
This patch hooks up the bridge start/stop and add/delete/disable
port functions to the new multicast module.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:49:38 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt
36cbd3dcc1 net: mark read-only arrays as const
String literals are constant, and usually, we can also tag the array
of pointers const too, moving it to the .rodata section.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-05 10:42:58 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
4f0611af47 bridge: fix initial packet flood if !STP
If bridge is configured with no STP and forwarding delay of 0 (which
is typical for virtualization) then when link starts it will flood all
packets for the first 20 seconds.

This bug was introduced by a combination of earlier changes:
  * forwarding database uses hold time of zero to indicate
    user wants to always flood packets
  * optimzation of the case of forwarding delay of 0 avoids the initial
    timer tick

The fix is to just skip all the topology change detection code if
kernel STP is not being used.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17 21:12:55 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
ef647f1300 bridge: Eliminate unnecessary forward delay
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Based upon original patch by Herbert Xu, which contained
the following problem description:

--------------------
When the forward delay is set to zero, we still delay the setting
of the forwarding state by one or possibly two timers depending
on whether STP is enabled.  This could either turn out to be
instantaneous, or horribly slow depending on the load of the
machine.

As there is nothing preventing us from enabling forwarding straight
away, this patch eliminates this potential delay by executing the
code directly if the forward delay is zero.

The effect of this problem is that immediately after the carrier
comes on a port, the bridge will drop all packets received from
that port until it enters forwarding mode, thus causing unnecessary
packet loss.

Note that this patch doesn't fully remove the delay due to the
link watcher.  We should also check the carrier state when we
are about to drop an incoming packet because the port is disabled.
But that's for another patch.
--------------------

This version of the fix takes a different approach, in that
it just does the state change directly.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-08-05 18:42:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
49997d7515 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
	drivers/atm/Makefile
	drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
	drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
	net/8021q/vlan.c
	net/iucv/iucv.c
2008-07-18 02:39:39 -07:00