kernel/net/dsa/dsa.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

net: dsa: fix off-by-one in maximum bridge ID determination

2026-01-22T03:52:29Z

Prior to the blamed commit, the bridge_num range was from 0 to ds->max_num_bridges - 1. After the commit, it is from 1 to ds->max_num_bridges. So this check: if (bridge_num >= max) return 0; must be updated to: if (bridge_num > max) return 0; in order to allow the last bridge_num value (==max) to be used. This is easiest visible when a driver sets ds->max_num_bridges=1. The observed behaviour is that even the first created bridge triggers the netlink extack "Range of offloadable bridges exceeded" warning, and is handled in software rather than being offloaded. Fixes: 3f9bb0301d50 ("net: dsa: make dp->bridge_num one-based") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120211039.3228999-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: fix missing put_device() in dsa_tree_find_first_conduit()

2025-12-23T09:32:08Z

of_find_net_device_by_node() searches net devices by their /sys/class/net/, entry. It is documented in its kernel-doc that: * If successful, returns a pointer to the net_device with the embedded * struct device refcount incremented by one, or NULL on failure. The * refcount must be dropped when done with the net_device. We are missing a put_device(&conduit->dev) which we could place at the end of dsa_tree_find_first_conduit(). But to explain why calling put_device() right away is safe is the same as to explain why the chosen solution is different. The code is very poorly split: dsa_tree_find_first_conduit() was first introduced in commit 95f510d0b792 ("net: dsa: allow the DSA master to be seen and changed through rtnetlink") but was first used several commits later, in commit acc43b7bf52a ("net: dsa: allow masters to join a LAG"). Assume there is a switch with 2 CPU ports and 2 conduits, eno2 and eno3. When we create a LAG (bonding or team device) and place eno2 and eno3 beneath it, we create a 3rd conduit (the LAG device itself), but this is slightly different than the first two. Namely, the cpu_dp->conduit pointer of the CPU ports does not change, and remains pointing towards the physical Ethernet controllers which are now LAG ports. Only 2 things change: - the LAG device has a dev->dsa_ptr which marks it as a DSA conduit - dsa_port_to_conduit(user port) finds the LAG and not the physical conduit, because of the dp->cpu_port_in_lag bit being set. When the LAG device is destroyed, dsa_tree_migrate_ports_from_lag_conduit() is called and this is where dsa_tree_find_first_conduit() kicks in. This is the logical mistake and the reason why introducing code in one patch and using it from another is bad practice. I didn't realize that I don't have to call of_find_net_device_by_node() again; the cpu_dp->conduit association was never undone, and is still available for direct (re)use. There's only one concern - maybe the conduit disappeared in the meantime, but the netdev_hold() call we made during dsa_port_parse_cpu() (see previous change) ensures that this was not the case. Therefore, fixing the code means reimplementing it in the simplest way. I am blaming the time of use, since this is what "git blame" would show if we were to monitor for the conduit's kobject's refcount remaining elevated instead of being freed. Tested on the NXP LS1028A, using the steps from Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst section "Affinity of user ports to CPU ports", followed by (extra prints added by me): $ ip link del bond0 mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp3: Link is Down bond0 (unregistering): (slave eno2): Releasing backup interface fsl_enetc 0000:00:00.2 eno2: Link is Down mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp0: bond0 disappeared, migrating to eno2 mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp1: bond0 disappeared, migrating to eno2 mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp2: bond0 disappeared, migrating to eno2 mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp3: bond0 disappeared, migrating to eno2 Fixes: acc43b7bf52a ("net: dsa: allow masters to join a LAG") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215150236.3931670-2-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: dsa: properly keep track of conduit reference

2025-12-23T09:32:08Z

Problem description ------------------- DSA has a mumbo-jumbo of reference handling of the conduit net device and its kobject which, sadly, is just wrong and doesn't make sense. There are two distinct problems. 1. The OF path, which uses of_find_net_device_by_node(), never releases the elevated refcount on the conduit's kobject. Nominally, the OF and non-OF paths should result in objects having identical reference counts taken, and it is already suspicious that dsa_dev_to_net_device() has a put_device() call which is missing in dsa_port_parse_of(), but we can actually even verify that an issue exists. With CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y, if we run this command "before" and "after" applying this patch: (unbind the conduit driver for net device eno2) echo 0000:00:00.2 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/fsl_enetc/unbind we see these lines in the output diff which appear only with the patch applied: kobject: 'eno2' (ffff002009a3a6b8): kobject_release, parent 0000000000000000 (delayed 1000) kobject: '109' (ffff0020099d59a0): kobject_release, parent 0000000000000000 (delayed 1000) 2. After we find the conduit interface one way (OF) or another (non-OF), it can get unregistered at any time, and DSA remains with a long-lived, but in this case stale, cpu_dp->conduit pointer. Holding the net device's underlying kobject isn't actually of much help, it just prevents it from being freed (but we never need that kobject directly). What helps us to prevent the net device from being unregistered is the parallel netdev reference mechanism (dev_hold() and dev_put()). Actually we actually use that netdev tracker mechanism implicitly on user ports since commit 2f1e8ea726e9 ("net: dsa: link interfaces with the DSA master to get rid of lockdep warnings"), via netdev_upper_dev_link(). But time still passes at DSA switch probe time between the initial of_find_net_device_by_node() code and the user port creation time, time during which the conduit could unregister itself and DSA wouldn't know about it. So we have to run of_find_net_device_by_node() under rtnl_lock() to prevent that from happening, and release the lock only with the netdev tracker having acquired the reference. Do we need to keep the reference until dsa_unregister_switch() / dsa_switch_shutdown()? 1: Maybe yes. A switch device will still be registered even if all user ports failed to probe, see commit 86f8b1c01a0a ("net: dsa: Do not make user port errors fatal"), and the cpu_dp->conduit pointers remain valid. I haven't audited all call paths to see whether they will actually use the conduit in lack of any user port, but if they do, it seems safer to not rely on user ports for that reference. 2. Definitely yes. We support changing the conduit which a user port is associated to, and we can get into a situation where we've moved all user ports away from a conduit, thus no longer hold any reference to it via the net device tracker. But we shouldn't let it go nonetheless - see the next change in relation to dsa_tree_find_first_conduit() and LAG conduits which disappear. We have to be prepared to return to the physical conduit, so the CPU port must explicitly keep another reference to it. This is also to say: the user ports and their CPU ports may not always keep a reference to the same conduit net device, and both are needed. As for the conduit's kobject for the /sys/class/net/ entry, we don't care about it, we can release it as soon as we hold the net device object itself. History and blame attribution ----------------------------- The code has been refactored so many times, it is very difficult to follow and properly attribute a blame, but I'll try to make a short history which I hope to be correct. We have two distinct probing paths: - one for OF, introduced in 2016 in commit 83c0afaec7b7 ("net: dsa: Add new binding implementation") - one for non-OF, introduced in 2017 in commit 71e0bbde0d88 ("net: dsa: Add support for platform data") These are both complete rewrites of the original probing paths (which used struct dsa_switch_driver and other weird stuff, instead of regular devices on their respective buses for register access, like MDIO, SPI, I2C etc): - one for OF, introduced in 2013 in commit 5e95329b701c ("dsa: add device tree bindings to register DSA switches") - one for non-OF, introduced in 2008 in commit 91da11f870f0 ("net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol support") except for tiny bits and pieces like dsa_dev_to_net_device() which were seemingly carried over since the original commit, and used to this day. The point is that the original probing paths received a fix in 2015 in the form of commit 679fb46c5785 ("net: dsa: Add missing master netdev dev_put() calls"), but the fix never made it into the "new" (dsa2) probing paths that can still be traced to today, and the fixed probing path was later deleted in 2019 in commit 93e86b3bc842 ("net: dsa: Remove legacy probing support"). That is to say, the new probing paths were never quite correct in this area. The existence of the legacy probing support which was deleted in 2019 explains why dsa_dev_to_net_device() returns a conduit with elevated refcount (because it was supposed to be released during dsa_remove_dst()). After the removal of the legacy code, the only user of dsa_dev_to_net_device() calls dev_put(conduit) immediately after this function returns. This pattern makes no sense today, and can only be interpreted historically to understand why dev_hold() was there in the first place. Change details -------------- Today we have a better netdev tracking infrastructure which we should use. Logically netdev_hold() belongs in common code (dsa_port_parse_cpu(), where dp->conduit is assigned), but there is a tradeoff to be made with the rtnl_lock() section which would become a bit too long if we did that - dsa_port_parse_cpu() also calls request_module(). So we duplicate a bit of logic in order for the callers of dsa_port_parse_cpu() to be the ones responsible of holding the conduit reference and releasing it on error. This shortens the rtnl_lock() section significantly. In the dsa_switch_probe() error path, dsa_switch_release_ports() will be called in a number of situations, one being where dsa_port_parse_cpu() maybe didn't get the chance to run at all (a different port failed earlier, etc). So we have to test for the conduit being NULL prior to calling netdev_put(). There have still been so many transformations to the code since the blamed commits (rename master -> conduit, commit 0650bf52b31f ("net: dsa: be compatible with masters which unregister on shutdown")), that it only makes sense to fix the code using the best methods available today and see how it can be backported to stable later. I suspect the fix cannot even be backported to kernels which lack dsa_switch_shutdown(), and I suspect this is also maybe why the long-lived conduit reference didn't make it into the new DSA probing paths at the time (problems during shutdown). Because dsa_dev_to_net_device() has a single call site and has to be changed anyway, the logic was just absorbed into the non-OF dsa_port_parse(). Tested on the ocelot/felix switch and on dsa_loop, both on the NXP LS1028A with CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y. Reported-by: Ma Ke Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251214131204.4684-1-make24@iscas.ac.cn/ Fixes: 83c0afaec7b7 ("net: dsa: Add new binding implementation") Fixes: 71e0bbde0d88 ("net: dsa: Add support for platform data") Reviewed-by: Jonas Gorski Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215150236.3931670-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: dsa: add simple HSR offload helpers

2025-12-02T00:45:07Z

It turns out that HSR offloads are so fine-grained that many DSA switches can do a small part even though they weren't specifically designed for the protocols supported by that driver (HSR and PRP). Specifically NETIF_F_HW_HSR_DUP - it is simple packet duplication on transmit, towards all (aka 2) ports members of the HSR device. For many DSA switches, we know how to duplicate a packet, even though we never typically use that feature. The transmit port mask from the tagging protocol can have multiple bits set, and the switch should send the packet once to every port with a bit set from that mask. Nonetheless, not all tagging protocols are like this, and sometimes the port is a single numeric value rather than a bit mask. For that reason, and also because switches can sometimes change tagging protocols for different ones, we need to make HSR offload helpers opt-in. For devices that can do nothing else HSR-specific, we introduce dsa_port_simple_hsr_join() and dsa_port_simple_hsr_leave(). These functions monitor when two user ports of the same switch are part of the same HSR device, and when that condition is true, they toggle the NETIF_F_HW_HSR_DUP feature flag of both net devices. Normally only dsa_port_simple_hsr_join() and dsa_port_simple_hsr_leave() are needed. The dsa_port_simple_hsr_validate() helper is just to see what kind of configuration could be offloadable using the generic helpers. This is used by switch drivers which are not currently using the right tagging protocol to offload this HSR ring, but could in principle offload it after changing the tagger. Suggested-by: David Yang Cc: "Alvin Šipraga" Cc: Chester A. Unal" Cc: "Clément Léger" Cc: Daniel Golle Cc: DENG Qingfang Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: George McCollister Cc: Hauke Mehrtens Cc: Jonas Gorski Cc: Kurt Kanzenbach Cc: Linus Walleij Cc: Sean Wang Cc: UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com Cc: Woojung Huh Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251130131657.65080-6-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: s/dev_close_many/netif_close_many/

2025-07-19T00:27:47Z

Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality") introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate. netif_close_many is used only by vlan/dsa and one mtk driver, so move it into NETDEV_INTERNAL namespace. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-8-sdf@fomichev.me Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: free routing table on probe failure

2025-04-17T01:14:44Z

If complete = true in dsa_tree_setup(), it means that we are the last switch of the tree which is successfully probing, and we should be setting up all switches from our probe path. After "complete" becomes true, dsa_tree_setup_cpu_ports() or any subsequent function may fail. If that happens, the entire tree setup is in limbo: the first N-1 switches have successfully finished probing (doing nothing but having allocated persistent memory in the tree's dst->ports, and maybe dst->rtable), and switch N failed to probe, ending the tree setup process before anything is tangible from the user's PoV. If switch N fails to probe, its memory (ports) will be freed and removed from dst->ports. However, the dst->rtable elements pointing to its ports, as created by dsa_link_touch(), will remain there, and will lead to use-after-free if dereferenced. If dsa_tree_setup_switches() returns -EPROBE_DEFER, which is entirely possible because that is where ds->ops->setup() is, we get a kasan report like this: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mv88e6xxx_setup_upstream_port+0x240/0x568 Read of size 8 at addr ffff000004f56020 by task kworker/u8:3/42 Call trace: __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x30 mv88e6xxx_setup_upstream_port+0x240/0x568 mv88e6xxx_setup+0xebc/0x1eb0 dsa_register_switch+0x1af4/0x2ae0 mv88e6xxx_register_switch+0x1b8/0x2a8 mv88e6xxx_probe+0xc4c/0xf60 mdio_probe+0x78/0xb8 really_probe+0x2b8/0x5a8 __driver_probe_device+0x164/0x298 driver_probe_device+0x78/0x258 __device_attach_driver+0x274/0x350 Allocated by task 42: __kasan_kmalloc+0x84/0xa0 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x298/0x490 dsa_switch_touch_ports+0x174/0x3d8 dsa_register_switch+0x800/0x2ae0 mv88e6xxx_register_switch+0x1b8/0x2a8 mv88e6xxx_probe+0xc4c/0xf60 mdio_probe+0x78/0xb8 really_probe+0x2b8/0x5a8 __driver_probe_device+0x164/0x298 driver_probe_device+0x78/0x258 __device_attach_driver+0x274/0x350 Freed by task 42: __kasan_slab_free+0x48/0x68 kfree+0x138/0x418 dsa_register_switch+0x2694/0x2ae0 mv88e6xxx_register_switch+0x1b8/0x2a8 mv88e6xxx_probe+0xc4c/0xf60 mdio_probe+0x78/0xb8 really_probe+0x2b8/0x5a8 __driver_probe_device+0x164/0x298 driver_probe_device+0x78/0x258 __device_attach_driver+0x274/0x350 The simplest way to fix the bug is to delete the routing table in its entirety. dsa_tree_setup_routing_table() has no problem in regenerating it even if we deleted links between ports other than those of switch N, because dsa_link_touch() first checks whether the port pair already exists in dst->rtable, allocating if not. The deletion of the routing table in its entirety already exists in dsa_tree_teardown(), so refactor that into a function that can also be called from the tree setup error path. In my analysis of the commit to blame, it is the one which added dsa_link elements to dst->rtable. Prior to that, each switch had its own ds->rtable which is freed when the switch fails to probe. But the tree is potentially persistent memory. Fixes: c5f51765a1f6 ("net: dsa: list DSA links in the fabric") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250414213001.2957964-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: clean up FDB, MDB, VLAN entries on unbind

2025-04-17T01:14:43Z

As explained in many places such as commit b117e1e8a86d ("net: dsa: delete dsa_legacy_fdb_add and dsa_legacy_fdb_del"), DSA is written given the assumption that higher layers have balanced additions/deletions. As such, it only makes sense to be extremely vocal when those assumptions are violated and the driver unbinds with entries still present. But Ido Schimmel points out a very simple situation where that is wrong: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZDazSM5UsPPjQuKr@shredder/ (also briefly discussed by me in the aforementioned commit). Basically, while the bridge bypass operations are not something that DSA explicitly documents, and for the majority of DSA drivers this API simply causes them to go to promiscuous mode, that isn't the case for all drivers. Some have the necessary requirements for bridge bypass operations to do something useful - see dsa_switch_supports_uc_filtering(). Although in tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/local_termination.sh, we made an effort to popularize better mechanisms to manage address filters on DSA interfaces from user space - namely macvlan for unicast, and setsockopt(IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP) - through mtools - for multicast, the fact is that 'bridge fdb add ... self static local' also exists as kernel UAPI, and might be useful to someone, even if only for a quick hack. It seems counter-productive to block that path by implementing shim .ndo_fdb_add and .ndo_fdb_del operations which just return -EOPNOTSUPP in order to prevent the ndo_dflt_fdb_add() and ndo_dflt_fdb_del() from running, although we could do that. Accepting that cleanup is necessary seems to be the only option. Especially since we appear to be coming back at this from a different angle as well. Russell King is noticing that the WARN_ON() triggers even for VLANs: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_li8Bj8bD4-BYKQ@shell.armlinux.org.uk/ What happens in the bug report above is that dsa_port_do_vlan_del() fails, then the VLAN entry lingers on, and then we warn on unbind and leak it. This is not a straight revert of the blamed commit, but we now add an informational print to the kernel log (to still have a way to see that bugs exist), and some extra comments gathered from past years' experience, to justify the logic. Fixes: 0832cd9f1f02 ("net: dsa: warn if port lists aren't empty in dsa_port_teardown") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250414212930.2956310-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

driver core: Constify API device_find_child() and adapt for various usages

2025-01-03T10:19:35Z

Constify the following API: struct device *device_find_child(struct device *dev, void *data, int (*match)(struct device *dev, void *data)); To : struct device *device_find_child(struct device *dev, const void *data, device_match_t match); typedef int (*device_match_t)(struct device *dev, const void *data); with the following reasons: - Protect caller's match data @*data which is for comparison and lookup and the API does not actually need to modify @*data. - Make the API's parameters (@match)() and @data have the same type as all of other device finding APIs (bus|class|driver)_find_device(). - All kinds of existing device match functions can be directly taken as the API's argument, they were exported by driver core. Constify the API and adapt for various existing usages. BTW, various subsystem changes are squashed into this commit to meet 'git bisect' requirement, and this commit has the minimal and simplest changes to complement squashing shortcoming, and that may bring extra code improvement. Reviewed-by: Alison Schofield Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König # for drivers/pwm Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241224-const_dfc_done-v5-4-6623037414d4@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: dsa: remove obsolete phylink dsa_switch operations

2024-10-07T23:23:10Z

No driver now uses the DSA switch phylink members, so we can now remove the method pointers, but we need to leave empty shim functions to allow those drivers that do not provide phylink MAC operations structure to continue functioning. Signed-off-by: Russell King (oracle) Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean Tested-by: Vladimir Oltean # sja1105, felix, dsa_loop Link: https://patch.msgid.link/E1swKNV-0060oN-1b@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: dsa: improve shutdown sequence

2024-10-01T07:56:36Z

Alexander Sverdlin presents 2 problems during shutdown with the lan9303 driver. One is specific to lan9303 and the other just happens to reproduce there. The first problem is that lan9303 is unique among DSA drivers in that it calls dev_get_drvdata() at "arbitrary runtime" (not probe, not shutdown, not remove): phy_state_machine() -> ... -> dsa_user_phy_read() -> ds->ops->phy_read() -> lan9303_phy_read() -> chip->ops->phy_read() -> lan9303_mdio_phy_read() -> dev_get_drvdata() But we never stop the phy_state_machine(), so it may continue to run after dsa_switch_shutdown(). Our common pattern in all DSA drivers is to set drvdata to NULL to suppress the remove() method that may come afterwards. But in this case it will result in an NPD. The second problem is that the way in which we set dp->conduit->dsa_ptr = NULL; is concurrent with receive packet processing. dsa_switch_rcv() checks once whether dev->dsa_ptr is NULL, but afterwards, rather than continuing to use that non-NULL value, dev->dsa_ptr is dereferenced again and again without NULL checks: dsa_conduit_find_user() and many other places. In between dereferences, there is no locking to ensure that what was valid once continues to be valid. Both problems have the common aspect that closing the conduit interface solves them. In the first case, dev_close(conduit) triggers the NETDEV_GOING_DOWN event in dsa_user_netdevice_event() which closes user ports as well. dsa_port_disable_rt() calls phylink_stop(), which synchronously stops the phylink state machine, and ds->ops->phy_read() will thus no longer call into the driver after this point. In the second case, dev_close(conduit) should do this, as per Documentation/networking/driver.rst: | Quiescence | ---------- | | After the ndo_stop routine has been called, the hardware must | not receive or transmit any data. All in flight packets must | be aborted. If necessary, poll or wait for completion of | any reset commands. So it should be sufficient to ensure that later, when we zeroize conduit->dsa_ptr, there will be no concurrent dsa_switch_rcv() call on this conduit. The addition of the netif_device_detach() function is to ensure that ioctls, rtnetlinks and ethtool requests on the user ports no longer propagate down to the driver - we're no longer prepared to handle them. The race condition actually did not exist when commit 0650bf52b31f ("net: dsa: be compatible with masters which unregister on shutdown") first introduced dsa_switch_shutdown(). It was created later, when we stopped unregistering the user interfaces from a bad spot, and we just replaced that sequence with a racy zeroization of conduit->dsa_ptr (one which doesn't ensure that the interfaces aren't up). Reported-by: Alexander Sverdlin Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/2d2e3bba17203c14a5ffdabc174e3b6bbb9ad438.camel@siemens.com/ Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/c1bf4de54e829111e0e4a70e7bd1cf523c9550ff.camel@siemens.com/ Fixes: ee534378f005 ("net: dsa: fix panic when DSA master device unbinds on shutdown") Reviewed-by: Alexander Sverdlin Tested-by: Alexander Sverdlin Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240913203549.3081071-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni