netdev - Re: [NET]: Messed multicast lists after dev_mc

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Message-Id: <1204115674.6309.0.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:34:34 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NET]: Messed multicast lists after dev_mc_sync/unsync


> > Could this be the reason for us seeing "multicast address leakage"
> > warnings?
> 
> 
> I don't think so, the users field was already initialized properly
> before. Is wireless using dev_unicast_sync or dev_mc_sync?

dev_mc_sync(), we sync all multicast addresses of all interfaces to the
master netdev to have a single consistent list. There used to be a
custom implementation of that but I replaced it.

johannes

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