[PATCH net] net: airoha: Keep UPDMEM egress MAC in sync for offloaded IPv6 flows

陈耀明 cc201008 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 00:10:46 PDT 2026


PPE routed IPv6 FOE entries do not carry the egress source MAC inline;
they store an SMAC id and the hardware resolves the address through the
UPDMEM table, which airoha_ppe_init_upd_mem() only programs with the GDM
port own dev_addr at probe time.

The netdev the flow actually egresses can legally carry a different
address: on PON setups the authentication MAC belongs to the pon device
while each service VLAN routes with its own address, so offloaded IPv6
frames left the port with a stale source MAC and were silently dropped
upstream. IPv4 was unaffected since HNAPT entries embed the MAC inline,
which made the failure hard to diagnose: TCP handshake and TLS completed
over the slow path and the transfer stalled exactly when the flow got
offloaded.

Before writing smac_id for routed IPv6 entries, program the UPDMEM slot
with the source address of this flow.

airoha_set_macaddr() writes the same slot from the ndo_open and
ndo_set_mac_address paths: take flow_offload_mutex there too so the two
UPDMEM writers cannot interleave their two-step DATA/CTRL sequence and
leave a stale address behind.

Tested on a Nokia XG-040G-MD (AN7581, GPON WAN, PPPoE over a service
VLAN carrying its own MAC address): IPv6 HTTPS transfers went from
stalling at the 15 s curl cap with partial bytes to completing at line
rate with hardware offloading enabled, matching IPv4 throughput.

Fixes: 00a7678310fe3 ("net: airoha: Introduce flowtable offload support")
Signed-off-by: Yaoming Chen <cc201008 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c  |  8 ++++++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
@@ -138,7 +138,15 @@ airoha_set_macaddr(struct airoha_gdm_dev *dev,
  airoha_fe_wr(eth, REG_FE_MAC_LMIN(reg), lmin);
  airoha_fe_wr(eth, REG_FE_MAC_LMAX(reg), lmax);

+ /*
+ * Serialize with the flowtable offload path: both writers program the
+ * same UPDMEM slot with a two-step DATA/CTRL sequence and concurrent
+ * updates would interleave, leaving a stale source MAC under already
+ * bound IPv6 entries.
+ */
+ mutex_lock(&flow_offload_mutex);
  airoha_ppe_init_upd_mem(dev, addr);
+ mutex_unlock(&flow_offload_mutex);

  return 0;
 }

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
@@ -414,6 +414,19 @@ airoha_ppe_foe_entry_prepare(struct airoha_eth *eth,
   dsa_port);

  smac_id = port->id;
+ /*
+ * Routed IPv6 entries resolve the egress source MAC
+ * through the UPDMEM table indexed by smac_id. The
+ * egress netdev can legally carry a different address
+ * than the GDM port itself: on PON setups the
+ * authentication MAC lives on the pon device while
+ * each service VLAN routes with its own address. Keep
+ * the table entry in sync with the source address this
+ * flow is actually going to use.
+ */
+ if (type >= PPE_PKT_TYPE_IPV6_ROUTE_3T)
+ airoha_ppe_init_upd_mem(dev,
+ data->eth.h_source);
  }
  }



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