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    net: dsa: sja1105: use 4095 as the private VLAN for untagged traffic · ed040abc
    Vladimir Oltean authored
    One thing became visible when writing the blamed commit, and that was
    that STP and PTP frames injected by net/dsa/tag_sja1105.c using the
    deferred xmit mechanism are always classified to the pvid of the CPU
    port, regardless of whatever VLAN there might be in these packets.
    
    So a decision needed to be taken regarding the mechanism through which
    we should ensure that delivery of STP and PTP traffic is possible when
    we are in a VLAN awareness mode that involves tag_8021q. This is because
    tag_8021q is not concerned with managing the pvid of the CPU port, since
    as far as tag_8021q is concerned, no traffic should be sent as untagged
    from the CPU port. So we end up not actually having a pvid on the CPU
    port if we only listen to tag_8021q, and unless we do something about it.
    
    The decision taken at the time was to keep VLAN 1 in the list of
    priv->dsa_8021q_vlans, and make it a pvid of the CPU port. This ensures
    that STP and PTP frames can always be sent to the outside world.
    
    However there is a problem. If we do the following while we are in
    the best_effort_vlan_filtering=true mode:
    
    ip link add br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1
    ip link set swp2 master br0
    bridge vlan del dev swp2 vid 1
    
    Then untagged and pvid-tagged frames should be dropped. But we observe
    that they aren't, and this is because of the precaution we took that VID
    1 is always installed on all ports.
    
    So clearly VLAN 1 is not good for this purpose. What about VLAN 0?
    Well, VLAN 0 is managed by the 8021q module, and that module wants to
    ensure that 802.1p tagged frames are always received by a port, and are
    always transmitted as VLAN-tagged (with VLAN ID 0). Whereas we want our
    STP and PTP frames to be untagged if the stack sent them as untagged -
    we don't want the driver to just decide out of the blue that it adds
    VID 0 to some packets.
    
    So what to do?
    
    Well, there is one other VLAN that is reserved, and that is 4095:
    $ ip link add link swp2 name swp2.4095 type vlan id 4095
    Error: 8021q: Invalid VLAN id.
    $ bridge vlan add dev swp2 vid 4095
    Error: bridge: Vlan id is invalid.
    
    After we made this change, VLAN 1 is indeed forwarded and/or dropped
    according to the bridge VLAN table, there are no further alterations
    done by the sja1105 driver.
    
    Fixes: ec5ae610 ("net: dsa: sja1105: save/restore VLANs using a delta commit method")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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