netdev - Re: [BUG] bd4265fe36 bridge: Only flood unreg groups... breaks DHCP setup

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Message-Id: <20110705.184044.1261486363010308552.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:40:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au
Cc:	mike@...loops.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] bd4265fe36 bridge: Only flood unreg groups... breaks
 DHCP setup

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 07:58:33 +0800

> bridge: Always flood broadcast packets
> 
> As is_multicast_ether_addr returns true on broadcast packets as
> well, we need to explicitly exclude broadcast packets so that
> they're always flooded.  This wasn't an issue before as broadcast
> packets were considered to be an unregistered multicast group,
> which were always flooded.  However, as we now only flood such
> packets to router ports, this is no longer acceptable.
> 
> Reported-by: Michael Guntsche <mike@...loops.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied.
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