On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 12:22 PM Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 7/30/22 19:03, Sevinj Aghayeva wrote:
> > When bridge binding is enabled for a vlan interface, it is expected
> > that the link state of the vlan interface will track the subset of the
> > ports that are also members of the corresponding vlan, rather than
> > that of all ports.
> >
> > Currently, this feature works as expected when a vlan interface is
> > created with bridge binding enabled:
> >
> >    ip link add link br name vlan10 type vlan id 10 protocol 802.1q \
> >          bridge_binding on
> >
> > However, the feature does not work when a vlan interface is created
> > with bridge binding disabled, and then enabled later:
> >
> >    ip link add link br name vlan10 type vlan id 10 protocol 802.1q \
> >          bridge_binding off
> >    ip link set vlan10 type vlan bridge_binding on
> >
> > After these two commands, the link state of the vlan interface
> > continues to track that of all ports, which is inconsistent and
> > confusing to users. This series fixes this bug and introduces two
> > tests for the valid behavior.
> >
> > Sevinj Aghayeva (3):
> >    net: bridge: export br_vlan_upper_change
> >    net: 8021q: fix bridge binding behavior for vlan interfaces
> >    selftests: net: tests for bridge binding behavior
> >
> >   include/linux/if_bridge.h                     |   9 ++
> >   net/8021q/vlan.h                              |   2 +-
> >   net/8021q/vlan_dev.c                          |  21 ++-
> >   net/bridge/br_vlan.c                          |   7 +-
> >   tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile          |   1 +
> >   .../selftests/net/bridge_vlan_binding_test.sh | 143 ++++++++++++++++++
> >   6 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >   create mode 100755
> tools/testing/selftests/net/bridge_vlan_binding_test.sh
> >
>
> Hmm.. I don't like this and don't think this bridge function should be
> exported at all.
>
> Calling bridge state changing functions from 8021q module is not the
> proper way to solve this. The problem is that the bridge doesn't know
> that the state has changed, so you can process NETDEV_CHANGE events and
> check for the bridge vlan which got its state changed and react based on
> it. I haven't checked in detail, but I think it should be doable. So all
> the logic is kept inside the bridge.
>

Hi Nik,

Can please elaborate on where I should process NETDEV_CHANGE events? I'm
doing this as part of outreachy project and this is my first kernel task,
so I don't know the bridging code that well.

Thanks!


>
> Cheers,
>   Nik
>


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Sevinj.Aghayeva

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