devlink: Add 'control' trap type

This type is used for traps that trap control packets such as ARP
request and IGMP query to the CPU.

Do not report such packets to the kernel's drop monitor as they were not
dropped by the device no encountered an exception during forwarding.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

3 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-trap.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-trap.rst
index 5b97327caefc..6c293cfa23ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-trap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-trap.rst
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The following diagram provides a general overview of ``devlink-trap``::
                           |                |
                           +-------^--------+
                                   |
-                                  |
+                                  | Non-control traps
                                   |
                              +----+----+
                              |         |      Kernel's Rx path
@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ The ``devlink-trap`` mechanism supports the following packet trap types:
     processed by ``devlink`` and injected to the kernel's Rx path. Changing the
     action of such traps is not allowed, as it can easily break the control
     plane.
+  * ``control``: Trapped packets were trapped by the device because these are
+    control packets required for the correct functioning of the control plane.
+    For example, ARP request and IGMP query packets. Packets are injected to
+    the kernel's Rx path, but not reported to the kernel's drop monitor.
+    Changing the action of such traps is not allowed, as it can easily break
+    the control plane.
 
 .. _Trap-Actions:
 
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
index 16305932a950..08563e6a424d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
@@ -253,10 +253,16 @@ enum devlink_trap_action {
  *                               control plane for resolution. Trapped packets
  *                               are processed by devlink and injected to
  *                               the kernel's Rx path.
+ * @DEVLINK_TRAP_TYPE_CONTROL: Packet was trapped because it is required for
+ *                             the correct functioning of the control plane.
+ *                             For example, an ARP request packet. Trapped
+ *                             packets are injected to the kernel's Rx path,
+ *                             but not reported to drop monitor.
  */
 enum devlink_trap_type {
 	DEVLINK_TRAP_TYPE_DROP,
 	DEVLINK_TRAP_TYPE_EXCEPTION,
+	DEVLINK_TRAP_TYPE_CONTROL,
 };
 
 enum {
diff --git a/net/core/devlink.c b/net/core/devlink.c
index d6298917b077..47c28e0f848f 100644
--- a/net/core/devlink.c
+++ b/net/core/devlink.c
@@ -8847,6 +8847,13 @@ void devlink_trap_report(struct devlink *devlink, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	devlink_trap_stats_update(trap_item->stats, skb->len);
 	devlink_trap_stats_update(trap_item->group_item->stats, skb->len);
 
+	/* Control packets were not dropped by the device or encountered an
+	 * exception during forwarding and therefore should not be reported to
+	 * the kernel's drop monitor.
+	 */
+	if (trap_item->trap->type == DEVLINK_TRAP_TYPE_CONTROL)
+		return;
+
 	devlink_trap_report_metadata_fill(&hw_metadata, trap_item,
 					  in_devlink_port, fa_cookie);
 	net_dm_hw_report(skb, &hw_metadata);