netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: do not call setup

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:13:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: do not call setup_timer() multiple times

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:07:16 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> commit 9f00b2e7cf24 ("bridge: only expire the mdb entry when query is
> received") added a nasty bug as an active timer can be reinitialized.
> 
> setup_timer() must be done once, no matter how many time mod_timer()
> is called. br_multicast_new_group() is the right place to do this.
> 
> Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Diagnosed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Tested-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks a lot Eric.
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