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Commit 7df4e744 authored by Vladimir Oltean's avatar Vladimir Oltean Committed by David S. Miller
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net: dsa: stop syncing the bridge mcast_router attribute at join time

Qingfang points out that when a bridge with the default settings is
created and a port joins it:

ip link add br0 type bridge
ip link set swp0 master br0

DSA calls br_multicast_router() on the bridge to see if the br0 device
is a multicast router port, and if it is, it enables multicast flooding
to the CPU port, otherwise it disables it.

If we look through the multicast_router_show() sysfs or at the
IFLA_BR_MCAST_ROUTER netlink attribute, we see that the default mrouter
attribute for the bridge device is "1" (MDB_RTR_TYPE_TEMP_QUERY).

However, br_multicast_router() will return "0" (MDB_RTR_TYPE_DISABLED),
because an mrouter port in the MDB_RTR_TYPE_TEMP_QUERY state may not be
actually _active_ until it receives an actual IGMP query. So, the
br_multicast_router() function should really have been called
br_multicast_router_active() perhaps.

When/if an IGMP query is received, the bridge device will transition via
br_multicast_mark_rout...
parent 3bacbe04
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