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Paul Gortmaker
bc3b2d7fb9 net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules
These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using
the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so
that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence
of module.h from everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
stephen hemminger
515853ccec bridge: allow forwarding some link local frames
This is based on an earlier patch by Nick Carter with comments
by David Lamparter but with some refinements. Thanks for their patience
this is a confusing area with overlap of standards, user requirements,
and compatibility with earlier releases.

It adds a new sysfs attribute
   /sys/class/net/brX/bridge/group_fwd_mask
that controls forwarding of frames with address of: 01-80-C2-00-00-0X
The default setting has no forwarding to retain compatibility.

One change from earlier releases is that forwarding of group
addresses is not dependent on STP being enabled or disabled. This
choice was made based on interpretation of tie 802.1 standards.
I expect complaints will arise because of this, but better to follow
the standard than continue acting incorrectly by default.

The filtering mask is writeable, but only values that don't forward
known control frames are allowed. It intentionally blocks attempts
to filter control protocols. For example: writing a 8 allows
forwarding 802.1X PAE addresses which is the most common request.

Reported-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Original-patch-by: Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-06 15:27:56 -04:00
Herbert Xu
44661462ee 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@it-loops.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-05 18:39:39 -07:00
David S. Miller
2bd93d7af1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Resolved logic conflicts causing a build failure due to
drivers/net/r8169.c changes using a patch from Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-26 12:16:46 -07:00
David S. Miller
f01cb5fbea Revert "bridge: Forward reserved group addresses if !STP"
This reverts commit 1e253c3b8a.

It breaks 802.3ad bonding inside of a bridge.

The commit was meant to support transport bridging, and specifically
virtual machines bridged to an ethernet interface connected to a
switch port wiht 802.1x enabled.

But this isn't the way to do it, it breaks too many other things.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-21 21:17:25 -07:00
stephen hemminger
7cd8861ab0 bridge: track last used time in forwarding table
Adds tracking the last used time in forwarding table.
Rename ageing_timer to updated to better describe it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-04 17:22:26 -07:00
Jiri Pirko
8a4eb5734e net: introduce rx_handler results and logic around that
This patch allows rx_handlers to better signalize what to do next to
it's caller. That makes skb->deliver_no_wcard no longer needed.

kernel-doc for rx_handler_result is taken from Nicolas' patch.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-16 12:53:54 -07:00
Herbert Xu
8a870178c0 bridge: Replace mp->mglist hlist with a bool
As it turns out we never need to walk through the list of multicast
groups subscribed by the bridge interface itself (the only time we'd
want to do that is when we shut down the bridge, in which case we
simply walk through all multicast groups), we don't really need to
keep an hlist for mp->mglist.

This means that we can replace it with just a single bit to indicate
whether the bridge interface is subscribed to a group.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-12 01:05:42 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
a386f99025 bridge: add proper RCU annotation to should_route_hook
Add br_should_route_hook_t typedef, this is the only way we can
get a clean RCU implementation for function pointer.

Move route_hook to location where it is used.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 11:13:16 -08:00
Benjamin Poirier
1e253c3b8a bridge: Forward reserved group addresses if !STP
Make all frames sent to reserved group MAC addresses (01:80:c2:00:00:00 to
01:80:c2:00:00:0f) be forwarded if STP is disabled. This enables
forwarding EAPOL frames, among other things.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-21 04:25:48 -07:00
Simon Horman
c2368e795c bridge: is PACKET_LOOPBACK unlikely()?
While looking at using netdev_rx_handler_register for openvswitch Jesse
Gross suggested that an unlikely() might be worthwhile in that code.
I'm interested to see if its appropriate for the bridge code.

Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-22 21:09:04 -07:00
David S. Miller
00dad5e479 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/e1000e/hw.h
	net/bridge/br_device.c
	net/bridge/br_input.c
2010-08-02 22:22:46 -07:00
stephen hemminger
eeaf61d889 bridge: add rcu_read_lock on transmit
Long ago, when bridge was converted to RCU, rcu lock was equivalent
to having preempt disabled. RCU has changed a lot since then and
bridge code was still assuming the since transmit was called with
bottom half disabled, it was RCU safe.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-28 10:50:55 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
406818ff34 bridge: 64bit rx/tx counters
Use u64_stats_sync infrastructure to provide 64bit rx/tx
counters even on 32bit hosts.

It is safe to use a single u64_stats_sync for rx and tx,
because BH is disabled on both, and we use per_cpu data.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-23 13:00:48 -07:00
Jiri Pirko
f350a0a873 bridge: use rx_handler_data pointer to store net_bridge_port pointer
Register net_bridge_port pointer as rx_handler data pointer. As br_port is
removed from struct net_device, another netdev priv_flag is added to indicate
the device serves as a bridge port. Also rcuized pointers are now correctly
dereferenced in br_fdb.c and in netfilter parts.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-15 11:48:58 -07:00
Jiri Pirko
ab95bfe01f net: replace hooks in __netif_receive_skb V5
What this patch does is it removes two receive frame hooks (for bridge and for
macvlan) from __netif_receive_skb. These are replaced them with a single
hook for both. It only supports one hook per device because it makes no
sense to do bridging and macvlan on the same device.

Then a network driver (of virtual netdev like macvlan or bridge) can register
an rx_handler for needed net device.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-02 07:11:15 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6291055465 Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/net-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_REJECT.c
	net/netfilter/xt_limit.c

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-04-20 16:02:01 +02:00
David S. Miller
871039f02f Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Jan Engelhardt
713aefa3fb netfilter: bridge: use NFPROTO values for NF_HOOK invocation
The first argument to NF_HOOK* is an nfproto since quite some time.
Commit v2.6.27-2457-gfdc9314 was the first to practically start using
the new names. Do that now for the remaining NF_HOOK calls.

The semantic patch used was:
// <smpl>
@@
@@
(NF_HOOK
|NF_HOOK_THRESH
)(
-PF_BRIDGE,
+NFPROTO_BRIDGE,
 ...)

@@
@@
 NF_HOOK(
-PF_INET6,
+NFPROTO_IPV6,
 ...)

@@
@@
 NF_HOOK(
-PF_INET,
+NFPROTO_IPV4,
 ...)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-03-25 16:00:29 +01:00
stephen hemminger
14bb478983 bridge: per-cpu packet statistics (v3)
The shared packet statistics are a potential source of slow down
on bridged traffic. Convert to per-cpu array, but only keep those
statistics which change per-packet.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-16 21:23:19 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
32dec5dd02 bridge br_multicast: Don't refer to BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->mrouters_only without IGMP snooping.
Without CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING,
BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->mrouters_only is not appropriately
initialized, so we can see garbage.

A clear option to fix this is to set it even without that
config, but we cannot optimize out the branch.

Let's introduce a macro that returns value of mrouters_only
and let it return 0 without CONFIG_BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-16 14:34:23 -07:00
Michael Braun
7f7708f005 bridge: Fix br_forward crash in promiscuous mode
From: Michael Braun <michael-dev@fami-braun.de>

bridge: Fix br_forward crash in promiscuous mode

It's a linux-next kernel from 2010-03-12 on an x86 system and it
OOPs in the bridge module in br_pass_frame_up (called by
br_handle_frame_finish) because brdev cannot be dereferenced (its set to
a non-null value).

Adding some BUG_ON statements revealed that
 BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->brdev == br-dev
(as set in br_handle_frame_finish first)
only holds until br_forward is called.
The next call to br_pass_frame_up then fails.

Digging deeper it seems that br_forward either frees the skb or passes
it to NF_HOOK which will in turn take care of freeing the skb. The
same is holds for br_pass_frame_ip. So it seems as if two independent
skb allocations are required. As far as I can see, commit
b33084be19 ("bridge: Avoid unnecessary
clone on forward path") removed skb duplication and so likely causes
this crash. This crash does not happen on 2.6.33.

I've therefore modified br_forward the same way br_flood has been
modified so that the skb is not freed if skb0 is going to be used
and I can confirm that the attached patch resolves the issue for me.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-16 00:26:22 -07:00
Herbert Xu
c4fcb78cf8 bridge: Add multicast data-path hooks
This patch finally hooks up the multicast snooping module to the
data path.  In particular, all multicast packets passing through
the bridge are fed into the module and switched by it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:49:45 -08:00
Herbert Xu
b33084be19 bridge: Avoid unnecessary clone on forward path
When the packet is delivered to the local bridge device we may
end up cloning it unnecessarily if no bridge port can receive
the packet in br_flood.

This patch avoids this by moving the skb_clone into br_flood.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:43 -08:00
Herbert Xu
68b7c895be bridge: Allow tail-call on br_pass_frame_up
This patch allows tail-call on the call to br_pass_frame_up
in br_handle_frame_finish.  This is now possible because of the
previous patch to call br_pass_frame_up last.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:43 -08:00
Herbert Xu
87557c18ac bridge: Do br_pass_frame_up after other ports
At the moment we deliver to the local bridge port via the function
br_pass_frame_up before all other ports.  There is no requirement
for this.

For the purpose of IGMP snooping, it would be more convenient if
we did the local port last.  Therefore this patch rearranges the
bridge input processing so that the local bridge port gets to see
the packet last (if at all).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-28 00:48:42 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
a598f6aebe bridge: relay bridge multicast pkgs if !STP
Currently the bridge catches all STP packets; even if STP is turned
off.  This prevents other systems (which do have STP turned on)
from being able to detect loops in the network.

With this patch, if STP is off, then any packet sent to the STP
multicast group address is forwarded to all ports.

Based on earlier patch by Joakim Tjernlund with changes
to go through forwarding (not local chain), and optimization
that only last octet needs to be checked.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-17 21:12:54 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
43aa192011 bridge: handle process all link-local frames
Any frame addressed to link-local addresses should be processed by local
receive path. The earlier code would process them only if STP was enabled.
Since there are other frames like LACP for bonding, we should always
process them.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-17 16:09:45 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
0b04082995 net: remove CVS keywords
This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time
from comments.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
a339f1c881 bridge: Use on-device stats instead of private ones.
Even though bridges require 6 fields from struct net_device_stats,
the on-device stats are always there, so we may just use them.

The br_dev_get_stats is no longer required after this.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-21 14:13:47 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
91c5ec3ed1 [BRIDGE]: Use cpu_to_be16() where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:00 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
82de382ce8 [BRIDGE]: Properly dereference the br_should_route_hook
This hook is protected with the RCU, so simple

	if (br_should_route_hook)
		br_should_route_hook(...)

is not enough on some architectures.

Use the rcu_dereference/rcu_assign_pointer in this case.

Fixed Stephen's comment concerning using the typeof().

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-11-29 23:58:58 +11:00
Herbert Xu
3db05fea51 [NETFILTER]: Replace sk_buff ** with sk_buff *
With all the users of the double pointers removed, this patch mops up by
finally replacing all occurances of sk_buff ** in the netfilter API by
sk_buff *.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:29 -07:00
Herbert Xu
7b995651e3 [BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry
Due to the special location of the bridging hook, it should never see a
shared packet anyway (certainly not with any in-kernel code).  So it
makes sense to unshare the skb there if necessary as that will greatly
simplify the code below it (in particular, netfilter).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:27 -07:00
Herbert Xu
e081e1e3ef [BRIDGE]: Kill clone argument to br_flood_*
The clone argument is only used by one caller and that caller can clone
the packet itself.  This patch moves the clone call into the caller and
kills the clone argument.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-16 16:20:48 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
df1c0b8468 [BRIDGE]: Packets leaking out of disabled/blocked ports.
This patch fixes some packet leakage in bridge.  The bridging code was
allowing forward table entries to be generated even if a device was
being blocked. The fix is to not add forwarding database entries
unless the port is active.

The bug arose as part of the conversion to processing STP frames
through normal receive path (in 2.6.17).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-30 22:15:35 -07:00
Al Viro
582ee43dad net/* misc endianness annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:11:56 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
c2886d6259 [BRIDGE]: if no STP then forward all BPDUs
If a bridge is not running STP, then it has no way to detect a cycle
in the network. But if it is not running STP and some other machine
or device is running STP, then if STP BPDU's get forwarded to it can
detect the cycle.

This is how the old 2.4 and early 2.6 code worked.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:30:02 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
2111f8b9e5 [BRIDGE]: drop PAUSE frames
Pause frames should never make it out of the network device into
the stack. But if a device was misconfigured, it might happen.
So drop pause frames in bridge.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:30:01 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
83aa0938ff [BRIDGE]: don't change packet type
The change to forward STP bpdu's (for usermode STP) through normal path,
changed the packet type in the process. Since link local stuff is multicast, it
should stay pkt_type = PACKET_MULTICAST.  The code was probably copy/pasted
incorrectly from the bridge pseudo-device receive path.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:30:00 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
467aea0ddf bridge: don't route packets while learning
While in the STP learning state, don't route packets; wait until
forwarding delay has expired. The purpose of the forwarding delay
is to detect loops in the network, and if a brouter started up
and started forwarding, it could cause a flood.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25 22:28:45 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
6229e362dd bridge: eliminate call by reference
Change the bridging hook to be simple function with return value
rather than modifying the skb argument. This could generate better
code and is cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25 22:28:44 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
fd74e6ccd5 [BRIDGE]: faster compare for link local addresses
Use logic operations rather than memcmp() to compare destination
address with link local multicast addresses.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:11 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
9d6f229fc4 [NET] BRIDGE: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:19:23 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
1c29fc4989 [BRIDGE]: keep track of received multicast packets
It makes sense to add this simple statistic to keep track of received
multicast packets.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-05 17:07:13 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
b7595b4955 [BRIDGE]: receive link-local on disabled ports.
This change allows link local packets (like 802.3ad and Spanning Tree
Protocol) to be processed even when the bridge is not using the port.
It fixes the chicken-egg problem for bridging a bonded device, and
may also fix problems with spanning tree failover.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-11 17:21:05 -07:00
Andrew Morton
b3e83d6d18 [BRIDGE]: Remove duplicate const from is_link_local() argument type.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 23:00:56 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
fda93d92d7 [BRIDGE]: allow show/store of group multicast address
Bridge's communicate with each other using Spanning Tree Protocol
over a standard multicast address. There are times when testing or
layering bridges over existing topologies or tunnels, when it is
useful to use alternative multicast addresses for STP packets.

The 802.1d standard has some unused addresses, that can be used for this.
This patch is restrictive in that it only allows one of the possible
addresses in the standard.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:59:21 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
cf0f02d04a [BRIDGE]: use llc for receiving STP packets
Use LLC for the receive path of Spanning Tree Protocol packets.
This allows link local multicast packets to be received by
other protocols (if they care), and uses the existing LLC
code to get STP packets back into bridge code.

The bridge multicast address is also checked, so bridges using
other link local multicast addresses are ignored. This allows
for use of different multicast addresses to define separate STP
domains.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:59:06 -08:00