netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast: disable port when in blocking state

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:26:12 +0300
From:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sashok@...ulusnetworks.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast: disable port when in blocking state


> On Jun 23, 2015, at 2:52 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:38:36PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
>> 
>> One more thing - I don’t think we need any additional changes because there’s a check in
>> br_multicast_port_query_expired():
>>      if (port->state == BR_STATE_DISABLED ||
>>            port->state == BR_STATE_BLOCKING)
>>                goto out;
>> 
>> So it looks like the port should be fine (i.e. not sending) when it goes in blocking state.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this! Perhaps we could at least add a
> comment to state that the disable_port isn't needed because the
> timers will expire and kill themselves automatically?  I think
> adding it to the place where you were going to place the disable_port
> call would be the most obvious.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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Right, sounds good. I’ll post a patch with the comment in a bit.

Thank you,
 Nik--
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