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authorCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>2013-05-21 21:52:55 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-05-22 14:54:37 -0700
commit9f00b2e7cf241fa389733d41b615efdaa2cb0f5b (patch)
tree3426d01fdec8b2419cdb72f597f1f9e5336a7643 /net/bridge/br_private.h
parent1c8ad5bfa2be5025b0c81e3c2decd0574d453ab1 (diff)
downloadlinux-9f00b2e7cf241fa389733d41b615efdaa2cb0f5b.tar.gz
bridge: only expire the mdb entry when query is received
Currently we arm the expire timer when the mdb entry is added,
however, this causes problem when there is no querier sent
out after that.

So we should only arm the timer when a corresponding query is
received, as suggested by Herbert.

And he also mentioned "if there is no querier then group
subscriptions shouldn't expire. There has to be at least one querier
in the network for this thing to work.  Otherwise it just degenerates
into a non-snooping switch, which is OK."

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_private.h')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_private.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_private.h b/net/bridge/br_private.h
index e260710a01d4..1b0ac95a5c37 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_private.h
+++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ struct net_bridge_mdb_entry
 	struct timer_list		timer;
 	struct br_ip			addr;
 	bool				mglist;
+	bool				timer_armed;
 };
 
 struct net_bridge_mdb_htable