Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: Add bridge ifindex to bridge fdb notify msgs

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 07:24:28 -0400

Looks good to me - i will be testing it over the weekend.

cheers,
jamal

On 05/28/14 01:39, [email-masked] wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>
> (This patch was previously posted as RFC at
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/352677/)
>
> This patch adds NDA_MASTER attribute to neighbour attributes enum for
> bridge/master ifindex. And adds NDA_MASTER to bridge fdb notify msgs.
>
> Today bridge fdb notifications dont contain bridge information.
> Userspace can derive it from the port information in the fdb
> notification. However this is tricky in some scenarious.
>
> Example, bridge port delete notification comes before bridge fdb
> delete notifications. And we have seen problems in userspace
> when using libnl where, the bridge fdb delete notification handling code
> does not understand which bridge this fdb entry is part of because
> the bridge and port association has already been deleted.
> And these notifications (port membership and fdb) are generated on
> separate rtnl groups.
>
> Fixing the order of notifications could possibly solve the problem
> for some cases (I can submit a separate patch for that).
>
> This patch chooses to add NDA_MASTER to bridge fdb notify msgs
> because it not only solves the problem described above, but also helps
> userspace avoid another lookup into link msgs to derive the master index.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
> ---
>   include/uapi/linux/neighbour.h |    1 +
>   net/bridge/br_fdb.c            |    3 +++
>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/neighbour.h b/include/uapi/linux/neighbour.h
> index d3ef583..4a1d7e9 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/neighbour.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/neighbour.h
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ enum {
>   	NDA_PORT,
>   	NDA_VNI,
>   	NDA_IFINDEX,
> +	NDA_MASTER,
>   	__NDA_MAX
>   };
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
> index 9203d5a..019bb93 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
> @@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ static int fdb_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_bridge *br,
>
>   	if (nla_put(skb, NDA_LLADDR, ETH_ALEN, &fdb->addr))
>   		goto nla_put_failure;
> +	if (nla_put_u32(skb, NDA_MASTER, br->dev->ifindex))
> +		goto nla_put_failure;
>   	ci.ndm_used	 = jiffies_to_clock_t(now - fdb->used);
>   	ci.ndm_confirmed = 0;
>   	ci.ndm_updated	 = jiffies_to_clock_t(now - fdb->updated);
> @@ -586,6 +588,7 @@ static inline size_t fdb_nlmsg_size(void)
>   {
>   	return NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct ndmsg))
>   		+ nla_total_size(ETH_ALEN) /* NDA_LLADDR */
> +		+ nla_total_size(sizeof(u32)) /* NDA_MASTER */
>   		+ nla_total_size(sizeof(u16)) /* NDA_VLAN */
>   		+ nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nda_cacheinfo));
>   }
>