| From: |
| Daniel Pawlik <pawlik.dan-AT-gmail.com> |
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| netfilter-devel-AT-vger.kernel.org, netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org |
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| [PATCH 0/5] netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: L2 bridge offload |
| Date: |
| Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:32:48 +0200 |
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| <20260629123253.1912621-1-pawlik.dan@gmail.com> |
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| pablo-AT-netfilter.org, fw-AT-strlen.de, phil-AT-nwl.cc, davem-AT-davemloft.net, edumazet-AT-google.com, kuba-AT-kernel.org, pabeni-AT-redhat.com, horms-AT-kernel.org, andrew+netdev-AT-lunn.ch, razor-AT-blackwall.org, idosch-AT-nvidia.com, matthias.bgg-AT-gmail.com, angelogioacchino.delregno-AT-collabora.com, bridge-AT-lists.linux.dev, coreteam-AT-netfilter.org, linux-mediatek-AT-lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel-AT-lists.infradead.org, rchen14b-AT-gmail.com, lorenzo-AT-kernel.org, Daniel Pawlik <pawlik.dan-AT-gmail.com> |
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This series adds L2 bridge offload support to nft_flow_offload, allowing
bridged IPv4/IPv6 flows to be accelerated by the flowtable fast path
without requiring L3 routing.
Background
----------
Hardware flow offload engines (e.g. MediaTek PPE) can accelerate bridged
traffic but require that nft_flow_offload detect and handle bridged flows
differently from routed ones: no routing table lookup, MAC addresses from
the Ethernet header, and VLAN context pre-populated from the bridge port.
Patches
-------
1/5 net: export __dev_fill_forward_path
Refactors dev_fill_forward_path() to expose __dev_fill_forward_path()
which accepts a caller-supplied net_device_path_ctx, needed to
pre-populate VLAN state before the forward path walk.
2/5 net: bridge: add flow offload helpers
Adds br_fdb_has_forwarding_entry_rcu(), br_vlan_get_offload_info_rcu()
and br_vlan_is_enabled_rcu() to expose bridge state to nft_flow_offload
without requiring inclusion of net/bridge/br_private.h.
3/5 netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add L2 bridge offload
Core of the series. Adds nft_flow_offload_is_bridging() detection,
nft_flow_route_bridging() which avoids nf_route() (fails for
bridged-only subnets), MAC/VLAN pre-population for bridged flows,
and a dst leak fix (allocation references in dsts[] were never
released after nft_default_forward_path() transferred ownership).
nft_flow_route() becomes a thin dispatcher.
4/5 netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: handle DEV_PATH_MTK_WDMA in path info
Fixes zero-source-MAC in PPE entries when a bridged flow traverses
MT7996/MT7915 WiFi WDMA hardware.
5/5 netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add VLAN passthrough support
Records VLAN encap info for passthrough-mode bridge ports so hardware
offload entries include the correct VLAN tag.
Rebase note
-----------
Originally developed against OpenWrt pending-6.18 patches by Ryan Chen
<rchen14b@gmail.com> and Bo-Cun Chen <bc-bocun.chen@mediatek.com>.
Rebased to current upstream: path discovery infrastructure moved to
nf_flow_table_path.c in commit 93d7a7ed0734 ("netfilter: flowtable: move
path discovery infrastructure to its own file"), so all netfilter changes
now land in that file rather than nft_flow_offload.c.
How to enable bridge offload
-----------------------------
1. Load kmod-br-netfilter so that bridged IP traffic traverses the
netfilter forward chain.
2. Enable netfilter hooks on the bridge:
echo 1 > /sys/class/net/<br>/bridge/nf_call_iptables
echo 1 > /sys/class/net/<br>/bridge/nf_call_ip6tables
3. Register bridge member interfaces in the nft flowtable:
table inet filter {
flowtable f {
hook ingress priority filter
devices = { eth0, wlan0 }
}
chain forward {
type filter hook forward priority filter
meta l4proto { tcp, udp } flow add @f
}
}
Daniel Pawlik (1):
net: bridge: add flow offload helpers
Ryan Chen (4):
net: export __dev_fill_forward_path
netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add L2 bridge offload
netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: handle DEV_PATH_MTK_WDMA in path info
netfilter: nf_flow_table_path: add VLAN passthrough support
include/linux/if_bridge.h | 23 ++++
include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 +
net/bridge/br_fdb.c | 32 +++++
net/bridge/br_vlan.c | 45 +++++++
net/core/dev.c | 32 +++--
net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_path.c | 201 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
6 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
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2.54.0