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Message-Id: <1492166974-20578-1-git-send-email-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:49:34 +0300
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        idosch@...lanox.com,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: notify on hw fdb takeover

Recently we added support for SW fdbs to take over HW ones, but that
results in changing a user-visible fdb flag thus we need to send a
notification, also it's consistent with how HW takes over SW entries.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_fdb.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
index 5a40a87c4f4f..de7988b0349e 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
@@ -595,8 +595,10 @@ void br_fdb_update(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_bridge_port *source,
 			if (unlikely(added_by_user))
 				fdb->added_by_user = 1;
 			/* Take over HW learned entry */
-			if (unlikely(fdb->added_by_external_learn))
+			if (unlikely(fdb->added_by_external_learn)) {
 				fdb->added_by_external_learn = 0;
+				fdb_modified = true;
+			}
 			if (unlikely(fdb_modified))
 				fdb_notify(br, fdb, RTM_NEWNEIGH);
 		}
-- 
2.1.4