When we create an L2 loop on a bridge in netns, we will see packets storm
even if STP is enabled.

  # unshare -n
  # ip link add br0 type bridge
  # ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1
  # ip link set veth0 master br0 up
  # ip link set veth1 master br0 up
  # ip link set br0 type bridge stp_state 1
  # ip link set br0 up
  # sleep 30
  # ip -s link show br0
  2: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP 
mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
      link/ether b6:61:98:1c:1c:b5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
      RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped missed  mcast
      956553768  12861249 0       0       0       12861249  <-. Keep
      TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns     |  increasing
      1027834    11951    0       0       0       0         <-'   rapidly

This is because llc_rcv() drops all packets in non-root netns and BPDU
is dropped.

Let's add extack warning when enabling STP in netns.

  # unshare -n
  # ip link add br0 type bridge
  # ip link set br0 type bridge stp_state 1
  Warning: bridge: STP does not work in non-root netns.

Note this commit will be reverted later when we namespacify the whole LLC
infra.

Fixes: e730c15519d0 ("[NET]: Make packet reception network namespace safe")
Suggested-by: Harry Coin <[email protected]>
Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]>
---
v2:
  - Just add extack instead of returning error (Ido Schimmel)

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
---
 net/bridge/br_stp_if.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
index 75204d36d7f9..b65962682771 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ int br_stp_set_enabled(struct net_bridge *br, unsigned long 
val,
 {
        ASSERT_RTNL();
 
+       if (!net_eq(dev_net(br->dev), &init_net))
+               NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "STP does not work in non-root 
netns");
+
        if (br_mrp_enabled(br)) {
                NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
                                   "STP can't be enabled if MRP is already 
enabled");
-- 
2.30.2

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