On 7/16/25 18:35, Joseph Huang wrote:
> Do not offload IGMP/MLD messages as it could lead to IGMP/MLD Reports
> being unintentionally flooded to Hosts. Instead, let the bridge decide
> where to send these IGMP/MLD messages.
>
> Consider the case where the local host is sending out reports in response
> to a remote querier like the following:
>
> mcast-listener-process (IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP)
> \
> br0
> / \
> swp1 swp2
> | |
> QUERIER SOME-OTHER-HOST
>
> In the above setup, br0 will want to br_forward() reports for
> mcast-listener-process's group(s) via swp1 to QUERIER; but since the
> source hwdom is 0, the report is eligible for tx offloading, and is
> flooded by hardware to both swp1 and swp2, reaching SOME-OTHER-HOST as
> well. (Example and illustration provided by Tobias.)
>
> Fixes: 472111920f1c ("net: bridge: switchdev: allow the TX data plane
> forwarding to be offloaded")
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Huang <joseph.hu...@garmin.com>
> ---
> v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250701193639.836027-1-joseph.hu...@garmin.com/
> v2:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250714150101.1168368-1-joseph.hu...@garmin.com/
> Updated commit message.
> v3: Return early if it's an IGMP/MLD packet.
> ---
> net/bridge/br_switchdev.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
> index 95d7355a0407..9a910cf0256e 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ static bool nbp_switchdev_can_offload_tx_fwd(const struct
> net_bridge_port *p,
> if (!static_branch_unlikely(&br_switchdev_tx_fwd_offload))
> return false;
>
> + if (br_multicast_igmp_type(skb))
> + return false;
> +
> return (p->flags & BR_TX_FWD_OFFLOAD) &&
> (p->hwdom != BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->src_hwdom);
> }
LGTM,
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <ra...@blackwall.org>
