From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp3.osuosl.org 4188760B3B DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 smtp3.osuosl.org DC9C8600CC MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:33:49 +0200 From: netdev@kapio-technology.com In-Reply-To: References: <20220707152930.1789437-1-netdev@kapio-technology.com> <20220707152930.1789437-4-netdev@kapio-technology.com> <20220708084904.33otb6x256huddps@skbuf> <20220708091550.2qcu3tyqkhgiudjg@skbuf> <20220708115624.rrjzjtidlhcqczjv@skbuf> <723e2995314b41ff323272536ef27341@kapio-technology.com> Message-ID: <79683d9cf122e22b66b5da3bbbb0ee1f@kapio-technology.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH v4 net-next 3/6] drivers: net: dsa: add locked fdb entry flag to drivers List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ido Schimmel Cc: Ivan Vecera , Andrew Lunn , Florian Fainelli , Jiri Pirko , Daniel Borkmann , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Nikolay Aleksandrov , bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vivien Didelot , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Roopa Prabhu , kuba@kernel.org, Vladimir Oltean , Shuah Khan , davem@davemloft.net On 2022-07-13 14:39, Ido Schimmel wrote: > > What are "Storm Prevention" and "zero-DPV" FDB entries? > For the zero-DPV entries, I can summarize: Since a CPU can become saturated from constant SA Miss Violations from a denied source, source MAC address are masked by loading a zero-DPV (Destination Port Vector) entry in the ATU. As the address now appears in the database it will not cause more Miss Violations. ANY port trying to send a frame to this unauthorized address is discarded. Any locked port trying to use this unauthorized address has its frames discarded too (as the ports SA bit is not set in the ATU entry).