linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] bridge: multicast: enable snooping on general queries only

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Message-ID: <20140311014823.GM5090@Linus-Debian>
Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:48:23 +0100
From:	Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>,
	Florian Westphal <fwestpha@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] bridge: multicast: enable snooping on general
 queries only

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:56:00PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:25:25PM +0100, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> >  	br_multicast_query_received(br, port, &br->ip6_querier,
> > -				    !ipv6_addr_any(&ip6h->saddr), max_delay);
> > +				    !ipv6_addr_any(&ip6h->saddr),
> > +				    is_general_query, max_delay);
> 
> Just a small nit, maybe for a later patch:
> 
> After your change 6565b9eeef194a ("bridge: multicast: add sanity check
> for query source addresses"), which is still in -net only, we could
> replace !ipv6_addr_any(&ip6h->saddr) with '1'?

Aiy, good point, that part is obsolete now and
br_multicast_query_received() could be simplified, right. Going
to do that once we are out of deep-RC territory again and/or
the according commit is available in net-next. Thanks for the
hint!

Cheers, Linus

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