[PATCH net RFC] net: dsa: mt7530: fix link-local frames that ingress vlan filtering ports

Vladimir Oltean olteanv at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 17:24:45 PST 2024


On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 01:26:19AM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 10:13:39PM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL via B4 Relay wrote:
> > One remaining limitation is that the ingress port must have a PVID assigned
> > to it for the frame to be trapped to the CPU port. A PVID is set by default
> > on vlan aware and vlan unaware ports. However, when the network interface
> > that pertains to the ingress port is attached to a vlan_filtering enabled
> > bridge, the user can remove the PVID assignment from it which would prevent
> > the link-local frames from being trapped to the CPU port.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at arinc9.com>
> > ---
> > I couldn't figure out a way to bypass VLAN table lookup for link-local
> > frames to directly trap them to the CPU port. The CPU port is hardcoded for
> > MT7530. For MT7531 and the switch on the MT7988 SoC, it depends on the port
> > matrix to choose the CPU port to trap the frames to. Port matrix and VLAN
> > table seem to go hand in hand so I don't know if this would even be
> > possible.
> > 
> > If possible to implement, link-local frames must not be influenced by the
> > VLAN table. They must always be trapped to the CPU port, and trapped
> > untagged.
> 
> Isn't this, in effect, what the "Leaky VLAN Enable" bit does?

Hm? Any news on this? I suppose this was the reason for submitting the
otherwise ok patch as RFC?



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list