netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: slave: Don't propagate flag changes on down slave interfaces

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Date:   Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:29:23 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     rdong.ge@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: slave: Don't propagate flag changes on down
 slave interfaces

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 09:05:11 -0800

> Le 2/2/19 à 6:29 AM, Rundong Ge a écrit :
>> The unbalance of master's promiscuity or allmulti will happen after ifdown
>> and ifup a slave interface which is in a bridge.
>> 
>> When we ifdown a slave interface , both the 'dsa_slave_close' and
>> 'dsa_slave_change_rx_flags' will clear the master's flags. The flags
>> of master will be decrease twice.
>> In the other hand, if we ifup the slave interface again, since the
>> slave's flags were cleared the 'dsa_slave_open' won't set the master's
>> flag, only 'dsa_slave_change_rx_flags' that triggered by 'br_add_if'
>> will set the master's flags. The flags of master is increase once.
>> 
>> Only propagating flag changes when a slave interface is up makes
>> sure this does not happen. The 'vlan_dev_change_rx_flags' had the
>> same problem and was fixed, and changes here follows that fix.
> 
> VLAN code under net/8021q/vlan_dev.c::vlan_dev_change_rx_flags() appears
> to do the same thing that you are proposing, so this looks fine to me.
> Since that is a bugfix, we should probably add:
> 
> Fixes: 91da11f870f0 ("net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol
> support")

Applied with Fixes tag added, and queued up for -stable.

Thanks.