selftests: forwarding: add option to run tests with stable MAC addresses
By default, DSA switch ports inherit their MAC address from the DSA master. This works well for practical situations, but some selftests like bridge_vlan_unaware.sh loop back 2 standalone DSA ports with 2 bridged DSA ports, and require the bridge to forward packets between the standalone ports. Due to the bridge seeing that the MAC DA it needs to forward is present as a local FDB entry (it coincides with the MAC address of the bridge ports), the test packets are not forwarded, but terminated locally on br0. In turn, this makes the ping and ping6 tests fail. Address this by introducing an option to have stable MAC addresses. When mac_addr_prepare is called, the current addresses of the netifs are saved and replaced with 00:01:02:03:04:${netif number}. Then when mac_addr_restore is called at the end of the test, the original MAC addresses are restored. This ensures that the MAC addresses are unique, which makes the test pass even for DSA ports. The usage model is for the behavior to be opt-in via STABLE_MAC_ADDRS, which DSA should set to true, all others behave as before. By hooking the calls to mac_addr_prepare and mac_addr_restore within the forwarding lib itself, we do not need to patch each individual selftest, the only requirement is that pre_cleanup is called. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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