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Message-ID: <4E539DA8.1070504@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:31:36 +0900
From:	Ang Way Chuang <wcang@....wide.ad.jp>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: IPv6 multicast snooping behaviour on 2.6.39-rc2 and later

Sorry for the blurb. I hope I've configured thunderbird properly to send in plain text. Hope you received my reply. I tried your patch on 3.0.3 and it didn't fix the problem.

Regards,
Ang

On 23/08/11 18:57, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 23 août 2011 à 17:41 +0900, Ang Way Chuang a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>>      Sorry for cross-posting. I have a testbed setup on my VM
>> environment that needs to use MLDv2 report message. My PIM router
>> which is connected to a port on the bridge relies upon MLDv2 message
>> to work. However, the setup failed to work after 2.6.39-rc2 or later.
>> MLDv2 won't be forwarded to any slave ports bound to the bridge
>> interface. Specifically, I track the cause down to this commit id:
>>
>>        ff9a57a62afbbe2d0f3a09af321f1fd7645f38a5
>>
>>      However, as soon as I disable multicast snooping on sysfs, MLDv2
>> message can be forwarded again.
>>
>>      I am not knowledgeable on the subject of multicast snooping, but
>> is this right behaviour for multicast snooping? IPv4 doesn't seem to
>> suffer the same fate though, IGMP can be forwarded even if
>> multicast_snooping is enabled. Thank you in advance.
>>
> Thanks very much for the report and your tracking.
>
> Added some CC
>
> I wonder if the  ff9a57a62afb commit doesnt uncover a prior bug, could
> you try the following patch ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> index 2d85ca7..51e3b2d 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> @@ -1520,6 +1520,7 @@ static int br_multicast_ipv6_rcv(struct net_bridge *br,
>   		err = pskb_trim_rcsum(skb2, len);
>   		if (err)
>   			goto out;
> +		icmp6h = icmp6_hdr(skb2);
>   	}
>
>   	switch (skb2->ip_summed) {
>
>
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