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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH net-next] bridge: mdb: add vlan support for user entries
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:28:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150720152817.4c2f5c73@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436540528-42334-1-git-send-email-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:02:08 -0700
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
> index eaaea6208b42..3635b7797508 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
> @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ struct br_mdb_entry {
>  #define MDB_TEMPORARY 0
>  #define MDB_PERMANENT 1
>  	__u8 state;
> +	__u16 vid;
>  	struct {
>  		union {
>  			__be32	ip4;

You added a new field into an unused hole in a data
structure shared as part of API with user space.

This seems like it might break when newer iproute
is run on older kernels. The vid would always be 0
on show and ignored when adding entries.


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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: mdb: add vlan support for user entries
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:28:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150720152817.4c2f5c73@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436540528-42334-1-git-send-email-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:02:08 -0700
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
> index eaaea6208b42..3635b7797508 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
> @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ struct br_mdb_entry {
>  #define MDB_TEMPORARY 0
>  #define MDB_PERMANENT 1
>  	__u8 state;
> +	__u16 vid;
>  	struct {
>  		union {
>  			__be32	ip4;

You added a new field into an unused hole in a data
structure shared as part of API with user space.

This seems like it might break when newer iproute
is run on older kernels. The vid would always be 0
on show and ignored when adding entries.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-20 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-10 15:02 [Bridge] [PATCH net-next] bridge: mdb: add vlan support for user entries Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-10 15:02 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-13 21:41 ` [Bridge] " David Miller
2015-07-13 21:41   ` David Miller
2015-07-20 22:28 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-07-20 22:28   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-07-20 22:53   ` [Bridge] " Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-20 22:53     ` Nikolay Aleksandrov

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