> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keller, Jacob E <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, October 6, 2025 3:59 PM
> To: Ertman, David M <[email protected]>; intel-wired-
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net] ice: Add lport/MAC rules for PF
> traffic in bonds
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/3/2025 9:27 AM, Dave Ertman wrote:
> > When two E8XX interfaces are placed into a bond, and are correctly
> > configured for supporting SRIOV traffic over the bonded interfaces,
> > there is a problem with traffic aimed directly at the bond netdev.  By
> > conjoining both interfaces onto a single switch black in the NIC, all
> > unicast and broadcast traffic is being directed to the primary interface's
> > set of resources no matter which interface is the active/targeting one.
> >
> > To fix this, add a set of rules into the switch block that combines both
> > target MAC address and source logical port to direct packets to the
> > active/targeted VSI.  This change will not touch traffic directed to SRIOV
> > VF targets.
> >
> > Fixes: ec5a6c5f79ed ("ice: process events created by lag netdev event
> handler")
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lag.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lag.h |   5 ++
> >  2 files changed, 106 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lag.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lag.c
> > index d2576d606e10..7773d5b9bae9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lag.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lag.c
> > @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ static const u8 lacp_train_pkt[ICE_TRAIN_PKT_LEN] = {
> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
> >  static const u8 act_act_train_pkt[ICE_TRAIN_PKT_LEN] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
> >                                                      0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
> >                                                      0, 0, 0, 0 };
> > +static u8 mac_train_pkt[ICE_TRAIN_PKT_LEN] = { 0 };
> >
> 
> Is there any way this static global variable could be either allocated
> or made part of the LAG structure or something?
> 
> You're using it as some sort of storage from what I can tell, but I
> really don't like that its a driver global and open to a lot of
> potential race conditions.
> 
> For that matter, its only accessed a couple of times, and each time its
> used to copy a value into it and then copy that into something else..
> Can you explain whats going on with that and why it even needs a global
> variable like this??
> 
> >  #define ICE_RECIPE_LEN                     64
> >  #define ICE_LAG_SRIOV_CP_RECIPE            10
> > @@ -29,6 +30,10 @@ static const u8 ice_lport_rcp[ICE_RECIPE_LEN] = {
> >     0x05, 0, 0, 0, 0x20, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
> >     0x85, 0, 0x16, 0, 0, 0, 0xff, 0xff, 0x07, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
> >     0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x30 };
> > +static const u8 ice_pfmac_rcp[ICE_RECIPE_LEN] = {
> > +   0x05, 0, 0, 0, 0x20, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x85, 0, 0x16,
> > +   0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0xff, 0xff, 0x07, 0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
> > +   0xff, 0xff, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x30 };
> >
> >  /**
> >   * ice_lag_set_primary - set PF LAG state as Primary
> > @@ -1336,6 +1341,89 @@ ice_lag_reclaim_vf_nodes(struct ice_lag *lag,
> struct ice_hw *src_hw)
> >                             ice_lag_reclaim_vf_tc(lag, src_hw, i, tc);
> >  }
> >
> > +/**
> > + * ice_lag_cfg_pfmac_fltrs
> > + * @lag: local lag info struct
> > + * @link: is this a linking action
> > + *
> > + * Configure lport/MAC filters for this interfaces PF traffic in the
> > + * current interfaces SWID
> > + */
> > +static void ice_lag_cfg_pfmac_fltrs(struct ice_lag *lag, bool link)
> > +{
> > +   u8 lport = lag->pf->hw.port_info->lport;
> > +   struct ice_sw_rule_lkup_rx_tx *s_rule;
> > +   struct ice_vsi *vsi = lag->pf->vsi[0];
> > +   struct ice_hw *hw = &lag->pf->hw;
> > +   u16 s_rule_sz;
> > +   u32 act;
> > +
> > +   act = ICE_FWD_TO_VSI | ICE_SINGLE_ACT_LAN_ENABLE |
> ICE_SINGLE_ACT_VALID_BIT |
> > +           FIELD_PREP(ICE_SINGLE_ACT_VSI_ID_M, vsi->vsi_num);
> > +
> > +   s_rule_sz = ICE_SW_RULE_RX_TX_HDR_SIZE(s_rule,
> ICE_TRAIN_PKT_LEN);
> > +   s_rule = kzalloc(s_rule_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +   if (!s_rule) {
> > +           netdev_warn(lag->netdev, "-ENOMEM error configuring
> PFMAC filters\n");
> > +           return;
> > +   }
> > +
> > +   if (link) {
> > +           u8 broadcast[ETH_ALEN] = { 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff };
> > +
> > +           /* unicast */
> > +           ether_addr_copy(mac_train_pkt, lag->upper_netdev-
> >dev_addr);
> > +           memcpy(s_rule->hdr_data, mac_train_pkt,
> ICE_TRAIN_PKT_LEN);
> 
> Here, you copy dev_addr into it, then you copy that back into
> s_rule->hdr_data...
> 
> > +           s_rule->recipe_id = cpu_to_le16(lag->pfmac_recipe);
> > +           s_rule->src = cpu_to_le16(lport);
> > +           s_rule->act = cpu_to_le32(act);
> > +           s_rule->hdr_len = cpu_to_le16(ICE_TRAIN_PKT_LEN);
> > +           s_rule->hdr.type =
> cpu_to_le16(ICE_AQC_SW_RULES_T_LKUP_RX);
> > +
> > +           if (ice_aq_sw_rules(hw, s_rule, s_rule_sz, 1,
> > +                               ice_aqc_opc_add_sw_rules, NULL)) {
> > +                   netdev_warn(lag->netdev, "Error ADDING Unicast
> PFMAC rule for aggregate\n");
> > +                   goto err_pfmac_free;
> > +           }
> > +
> > +           lag->pfmac_unicst_idx = le16_to_cpu(s_rule->index);
> > +
> > +           /* broadast */
> > +           ether_addr_copy(mac_train_pkt, broadcast);
> > +           memcpy(s_rule->hdr_data, mac_train_pkt,
> ICE_TRAIN_PKT_LEN);
> 
> And here, you copy the broadcast into it, and then copy that into the
> s_rule_hdr_data...
> 
> But why not just copy directly into the s_rule->hdr_data instead of
> copying twice? Literally nothing else interacts with mac_train_pkt
> introduced in this patch, so we needlessly copy, and result in using a
> value that could be modified by another thread possibly even on another
> PF since its a global variable...
> 
> Please fix this.


Yeah - I think you are right.  I originally wrote this following the pattern 
already
Present in the code, but with this packet starting with all zeros there is no 
need for
It to be a const.

Will rewrite this using a local variable.

DaveE

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