net/mlx5: Bridge, don't fail unlink of untracked/unsupported peer ports

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mlx5_esw_bridge_vport_unlink() returns -EINVAL when the port isn't
tracked by this instance's br_offloads. This is reachable on a sibling
instance that registered its notifier after the port was already
enslaved: it never saw the NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER link event, so
peer_link() never created a peer port for it, but it does see the
later unlink event and fails. Return 0 instead, and give
mlx5_esw_bridge_vport_peer_unlink() the same merged_eswitch capability
guard peer_link() already has, since without it peer_link() likewise
never creates a port to unlink.

This also matters beyond the -EINVAL itself:
mlx5_esw_bridge_switchdev_port_event() runs on the per-netns
netdev_chain, and notifier_from_errno(-EINVAL) sets NOTIFY_STOP_MASK,
which call_netdevice_notifiers_info() checks to stop calling further
listeners on that chain - so the old -EINVAL silently dropped the
event for any listener registered later on the same chain, even
though none of it was visible to user space since
__netdev_upper_dev_unlink() discards the return value.

Fixes: c358ea1741 ("net/mlx5: Bridge, allow merged eswitch connectivity")
Signed-off-by: Bernardo Soares <bsoares.it@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260918095931.29792-3-bsoares.it@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Bernardo Soares 2026-09-18 10:59:31 +01:00 • committed by Jakub Kicinski

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drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/bridge.c

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