Notify userspace about bridge learning MAC on new port Currently, the userspace is informed about the port the MAC is learned on a bridge and about the bridge removing the MAC from its forwarding table, but not when the MAC is learned on a different port. This is inconsistent and makes it difficult for applications to keep track of all MACs learned by a bridge on a subset of its ports. Signed-off-by: Michael Braun --- a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c 2013-04-15 11:21:51.638963668 +0200 +++ b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c 2013-04-15 11:23:55.941166319 +0200 @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ static int fdb_insert(struct net_bridge { struct hlist_head *head = &br->hash[br_mac_hash(addr, vid)]; struct net_bridge_fdb_entry *fdb; + struct net_bridge_port *origsrc; if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr)) return -EINVAL; @@ -471,8 +472,12 @@ void br_fdb_update(struct net_bridge *br source->dev->name); } else { /* fastpath: update of existing entry */ + origsrc = fdb->dst; fdb->dst = source; fdb->updated = jiffies; + /* notify applications of modified slave device */ + if (origsrc != source) + fdb_notify(br, fdb, RTM_NEWNEIGH); } } else { spin_lock(&br->hash_lock);