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...
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