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bridge: only expire the mdb entry when query is received
authorCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Tue, 21 May 2013 21:52:55 +0000 (21:52 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 22 May 2013 21:54:37 +0000 (14:54 -0700)
commit13ec12fbec01d5f0394136f6f514c01aa8a14d9c
tree3426d01fdec8b2419cdb72f597f1f9e5336a7643
parent9e18e3434ab2ba5dd900cfbbc1ad8dff6352c0bc
bridge: only expire the mdb entry when query is received

Currently we arm the expire timer when the mdb entry is added,
however, this causes problem when there is no querier sent
out after that.

So we should only arm the timer when a corresponding query is
received, as suggested by Herbert.

And he also mentioned "if there is no querier then group
subscriptions shouldn't expire. There has to be at least one querier
in the network for this thing to work.  Otherwise it just degenerates
into a non-snooping switch, which is OK."

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/bridge/br_multicast.c
net/bridge/br_private.h