kernel/linux.git/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h, branch linux-5.9.y

rtnetlink: add support for protodown reason

2020-08-01T01:49:16+00:00

netdev protodown is a mechanism that allows protocols to hold an interface down. It was initially introduced in the kernel to hold links down by a multihoming protocol. There was also an attempt to introduce protodown reason at the time but was rejected. protodown and protodown reason is supported by almost every switching and routing platform. It was ok for a while to live without a protodown reason. But, its become more critical now given more than one protocol may need to keep a link down on a system at the same time. eg: vrrp peer node, port security, multihoming protocol. Its common for Network operators and protocol developers to look for such a reason on a networking box (Its also known as errDisable by most networking operators) This patch adds support for link protodown reason attribute. There are two ways to maintain protodown reasons. (a) enumerate every possible reason code in kernel - A protocol developer has to make a request and have that appear in a certain kernel version (b) provide the bits in the kernel, and allow user-space (sysadmin or NOS distributions) to manage the bit-to-reasonname map. - This makes extending reason codes easier (kind of like the iproute2 table to vrf-name map /etc/iproute2/rt_tables.d/) This patch takes approach (b). a few things about the patch: - It treats the protodown reason bits as counter to indicate active protodown users - Since protodown attribute is already an exposed UAPI, the reason is not enforced on a protodown set. Its a no-op if not used. the patch follows the below algorithm: - presence of reason bits set indicates protodown is in use - user can set protodown and protodown reason in a single or multiple setlink operations - setlink operation to clear protodown, will return -EBUSY if there are active protodown reason bits - reason is not included in link dumps if not used example with patched iproute2: $cat /etc/iproute2/protodown_reasons.d/r.conf 0 mlag 1 evpn 2 vrrp 3 psecurity $ip link set dev vxlan0 protodown on protodown_reason vrrp on $ip link set dev vxlan0 protodown_reason mlag on $ip link show 14: vxlan0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether f6:06:be:17:91:e7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff protodown on $ip link set dev vxlan0 protodown_reason mlag off $ip link set dev vxlan0 protodown off protodown_reason vrrp off Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

hsr: enhance netlink socket interface to support PRP

2020-07-27T19:20:40+00:00

Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) is another redundancy protocol introduced by IEC 63439 standard. It is similar to HSR in many aspects:- - Use a pair of Ethernet interfaces to created the PRP device - Use a 6 byte redundancy protocol part (RCT, Redundancy Check Trailer) similar to HSR Tag. - Has Link Redundancy Entity (LRE) that works with RCT to implement redundancy. Key difference is that the protocol unit is a trailer instead of a prefix as in HSR. That makes it inter-operable with tradition network components such as bridges/switches which treat it as pad bytes, whereas HSR nodes requires some kind of translators (Called redbox) to talk to regular network devices. This features allows regular linux box to be converted to a DAN-P box. DAN-P stands for Dual Attached Node - PRP similar to DAN-H (Dual Attached Node - HSR). Add a comment at the header/source code to explicitly state that the driver files also handles PRP protocol as well. Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bareudp: Reverted support to enable & disable rx metadata collection

2020-07-22T01:30:47+00:00

The commit fe80536acf83 ("bareudp: Added attribute to enable & disable rx metadata collection") breaks the the original(5.7) default behavior of bareudp module to collect RX metadadata at the receive. It was added to avoid the crash at the kernel neighbour subsytem when packet with metadata from bareudp is processed. But it is no more needed as the commit 394de110a733 ("net: Added pointer check for dst->ops->neigh_lookup in dst_neigh_lookup_skb") solves this crash. Fixes: fe80536acf83 ("bareudp: Added attribute to enable & disable rx metadata collection") Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese Acked-by: Guillaume Nault Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: bridge: Add port attribute IFLA_BRPORT_MRP_IN_OPEN

2020-07-14T20:46:43+00:00

This patch adds a new port attribute, IFLA_BRPORT_MRP_IN_OPEN, which allows to notify the userspace when the node lost the contiuity of MRP_InTest frames. Signed-off-by: Horatiu Vultur Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bareudp: Added attribute to enable & disable rx metadata collection

2020-06-29T03:48:20+00:00

Metadata need not be collected in receive if the packet from bareudp device is not targeted to openvswitch. Signed-off-by: Martin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: bridge: Add port attribute IFLA_BRPORT_MRP_RING_OPEN

2020-04-27T18:40:25+00:00

This patch adds a new port attribute, IFLA_BRPORT_MRP_RING_OPEN, which allows to notify the userspace when the port lost the continuite of MRP frames. This attribute is set by kernel whenever the SW or HW detects that the ring is being open or closed. Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: Horatiu Vultur Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2020-03-31T02:52:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: macsec: add support for specifying offload upon link creation

2020-03-30T04:34:21+00:00

This patch adds new netlink attribute to allow a user to (optionally) specify the desired offload mode immediately upon MACSec link creation. Separate iproute patch will be required to support this from user space. Signed-off-by: Mark Starovoytov Signed-off-by: Igor Russkikh Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xdp: Support specifying expected existing program when attaching XDP

2020-03-28T21:24:41+00:00

While it is currently possible for userspace to specify that an existing XDP program should not be replaced when attaching to an interface, there is no mechanism to safely replace a specific XDP program with another. This patch adds a new netlink attribute, IFLA_XDP_EXPECTED_FD, which can be set along with IFLA_XDP_FD. If set, the kernel will check that the program currently loaded on the interface matches the expected one, and fail the operation if it does not. This corresponds to a 'cmpxchg' memory operation. Setting the new attribute with a negative value means that no program is expected to be attached, which corresponds to setting the UPDATE_IF_NOEXIST flag. A new companion flag, XDP_FLAGS_REPLACE, is also added to explicitly request checking of the EXPECTED_FD attribute. This is needed for userspace to discover whether the kernel supports the new attribute. Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/158515700640.92963.3551295145441017022.stgit@toke.dk

net: macsec: add support for offloading to the MAC

2020-03-27T03:17:36+00:00

This patch adds a new MACsec offloading option, MACSEC_OFFLOAD_MAC, allowing a user to select a MAC as a provider for MACsec offloading operations. Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart Signed-off-by: Mark Starovoytov Signed-off-by: Igor Russkikh Signed-off-by: David S. Miller