From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <ra...@blackwall.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:10:44 +0200
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
>
> Since mdb states were introduced when deleting an entry the state was
> left as it was set in the delete request from the user which leads to
> the following output when doing a monitor (for example):
> $ bridge mdb add dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
> (monitor) dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
> $ bridge mdb del dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
> (monitor) dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 temp
> ^^^
> Note the "temp" state in the delete notification which is wrong since
> the entry was permanent, the state in a delete is always reported as
> "temp" regardless of the real state of the entry.
>
> After this patch:
> $ bridge mdb add dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
> (monitor) dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
> $ bridge mdb del dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
> (monitor) dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
>
> There's one important note to make here that the state is actually not
> matched when doing a delete, so one can delete a permanent entry by
> stating "temp" in the end of the command, I've chosen this fix in order
> not to break user-space tools which rely on this (incorrect) behaviour.
>
> So to give an example after this patch and using the wrong state:
> $ bridge mdb add dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
> (monitor) dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
> $ bridge mdb del dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 temp
> (monitor) dev br0 port eth3 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent
>
> Note the state of the entry that got deleted is correct in the
> notification.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Fixes: ccb1c31a7a87 ("bridge: add flags to distinguish permanent mdb entires")
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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