kernel/linux.git/net/dsa, branch v6.6.131

net: dsa: properly keep track of conduit reference

2026-03-25T10:06:00+00:00

commit 06e219f6a706c367c93051f408ac61417643d2f9 upstream. 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 [ backport: "conduit" -> "master" in code, kept original commit message ] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2026-01-30T09:27:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit dfca045cd4d0ea07ff4198ba392be3e718acaddc ] 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: dsa: improve shutdown sequence

2025-11-24T09:30:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6c24a03a61a245fe34d47582898331fa034b6ccd ] 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->master->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_master_find_slave() 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 master interface solves them. In the first case, dev_close(master) triggers the NETDEV_GOING_DOWN event in dsa_slave_netdevice_event() which closes slave 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(master) 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 master->dsa_ptr, there will be no concurrent dsa_switch_rcv() call on this master. The addition of the netif_device_detach() function is to ensure that ioctls, rtnetlinks and ethtool requests on the slave 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 slave interfaces from a bad spot, and we just replaced that sequence with a racy zeroization of master->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 [ Modification: Using dp->master and dp->slave instead of dp->conduit and dp->user ] Signed-off-by: Rajani Kantha <681739313@139.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: dsa: tag_brcm: legacy: fix untagged rx on unbridged ports for bcm63xx

2025-11-24T09:29:51+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3d18a84eddde169d6dbf3c72cc5358b988c347d0 ] The internal switch on BCM63XX SoCs will unconditionally add 802.1Q VLAN tags on egress to CPU when 802.1Q mode is enabled. We do this unconditionally since commit ed409f3bbaa5 ("net: dsa: b53: Configure VLANs while not filtering"). This is fine for VLAN aware bridges, but for standalone ports and vlan unaware bridges this means all packets are tagged with the default VID, which is 0. While the kernel will treat that like untagged, this can break userspace applications processing raw packets, expecting untagged traffic, like STP daemons. This also breaks several bridge tests, where the tcpdump output then does not match the expected output anymore. Since 0 isn't a valid VID, just strip out the VLAN tag if we encounter it, unless the priority field is set, since that would be a valid tag again. Fixes: 964dbf186eaa ("net: dsa: tag_brcm: add support for legacy tags") Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027194621.133301-1-jonas.gorski@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: dsa: microchip: linearize skb for tail-tagging switches

2025-09-09T16:56:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit ba54bce747fa9e07896c1abd9b48545f7b4b31d2 ] The pointer arithmentic for accessing the tail tag only works for linear skbs. For nonlinear skbs, it reads uninitialized memory inside the skb headroom, essentially randomizing the tag. I have observed it gets set to 6 most of the time. Example where ksz9477_rcv thinks that the packet from port 1 comes from port 6 (which does not exist for the ksz9896 that's in use), dropping the packet. Debug prints added by me (not included in this patch): [ 256.645337] ksz9477_rcv:323 tag0=6 [ 256.645349] skb len=47 headroom=78 headlen=0 tailroom=0 mac=(64,14) mac_len=14 net=(78,0) trans=78 shinfo(txflags=0 nr_frags=1 gso(size=0 type=0 segs=0)) csum(0x0 start=0 offset=0 ip_summed=0 complete_sw=0 valid=0 level=0) hash(0x0 sw=0 l4=0) proto=0x00f8 pkttype=1 iif=3 priority=0x0 mark=0x0 alloc_cpu=0 vlan_all=0x0 encapsulation=0 inner(proto=0x0000, mac=0, net=0, trans=0) [ 256.645377] dev name=end1 feat=0x0002e10200114bb3 [ 256.645386] skb headroom: 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645395] skb headroom: 00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645403] skb headroom: 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645411] skb headroom: 00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645420] skb headroom: 00000040: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 1c 19 f2 e2 db 08 06 [ 256.645428] skb frag: 00000000: 00 01 08 00 06 04 00 01 00 1c 19 f2 e2 db 0a 02 [ 256.645436] skb frag: 00000010: 00 83 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 02 a0 2f 00 00 00 00 [ 256.645444] skb frag: 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 [ 256.645452] ksz_common_rcv:92 dsa_conduit_find_user returned NULL Call skb_linearize before trying to access the tag. This patch fixes ksz9477_rcv which is used by the ksz9896 I have at hand, and also applies the same fix to ksz8795_rcv which seems to have the same problem. Signed-off-by: Jakob Unterwurzacher CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 016e43a26bab ("net: dsa: ksz: Add KSZ8795 tag code") Fixes: 8b8010fb7876 ("dsa: add support for Microchip KSZ tail tagging") Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250515072920.2313014-1-jakob.unterwurzacher@cherry.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: dsa: microchip: update tag_ksz masks for KSZ9477 family

2025-09-09T16:56:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3f464b193d40e49299dcd087b10cc3b77cbbea68 ] Remove magic number 7 by introducing a GENMASK macro instead. Remove magic number 0x80 by using the BIT macro instead. Signed-off-by: Pieter Van Trappen Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240909134301.75448-1-vtpieter@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: ba54bce747fa ("net: dsa: microchip: linearize skb for tail-tagging switches") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: dsa: tag_brcm: legacy: fix pskb_may_pull length

2025-06-19T13:28:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit efdddc4484859082da6c7877ed144c8121c8ea55 ] BRCM_LEG_PORT_ID was incorrectly used for pskb_may_pull length. The correct check is BRCM_LEG_TAG_LEN + VLAN_HLEN, or 10 bytes. Fixes: 964dbf186eaa ("net: dsa: tag_brcm: add support for legacy tags") Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250529124406.2513779-1-noltari@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: dsa: avoid refcount warnings when ds->ops->tag_8021q_vlan_del() fails

2025-04-25T08:45:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit 514eff7b0aa1c5eb645ddbb8676ef3e2d88a8b99 ] This is very similar to the problem and solution from commit 232deb3f9567 ("net: dsa: avoid refcount warnings when ->port_{fdb,mdb}_del returns error"), except for the dsa_port_do_tag_8021q_vlan_del() operation. Fixes: c64b9c05045a ("net: dsa: tag_8021q: add proper cross-chip notifier support") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250414213020.2959021-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: dsa: free routing table on probe failure

2025-04-25T08:45:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8bf108d7161ffc6880ad13a0cc109de3cf631727 ] 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

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

2025-04-25T08:45:43+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7afb5fb42d4950f33af2732b8147c552659f79b7 ] 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin