From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: Yuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>
Cc: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>,
Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v10 4/6] net: add AF_PACKET multicast dumps
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 11:57:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c5e6623-ccd3-4570-a5d0-313e09f9bb62@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007115821.11332-5-sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>
Le 07/10/2026 à 13:58, Yuyang Huang a écrit :
> RTM_GETMULTICAST dumps IPv4 and IPv6 multicast group memberships, but
> the device multicast list (dev->mc) is only available through
> /proc/net/dev_mcast, so "ip maddr show" still has to parse procfs for
> its link-layer entries.
>
> Handle RTM_GETMULTICAST dumps with ifa_family set to AF_PACKET next to
> the dev->mc helpers in dev_addr_lists.c and report every entry of
> dev->mc in the existing ifaddrmsg format:
>
> - IFA_MULTICAST carries the raw link-layer address
> - IFA_MC_USERS carries the entry reference count
> - IFA_F_GLOBAL in IFA_FLAGS reports netdev_hw_addr::global_use, set
> by dev_mc_add_global() (SIOCADDMULTI) and dev_mc_add_excl()
> ("bridge fdb add ... self"), i.e. entries added explicitly rather
> than by a protocol join. This is the static column of
> /proc/net/dev_mcast
> - ifa_scope is RT_SCOPE_LINK
>
> This covers every column of /proc/net/dev_mcast. AF_PACKET is the
> family iproute2 already uses for link-layer addresses ("ip -0").
>
> The default FDB dump also walks dev->mc, but only for Ethernet devices
> and only if the driver uses it, vxlan for example does not, and it has
> no users count or global_use bit. Extending it would change "bridge fdb
> show" output and add NDA_* attributes.
>
> Requests are always validated, there are no legacy users: prefixlen,
> flags and scope must be zero, ifa_index selects one device and
> IFA_TARGET_NETNSID is the only attribute accepted. The dump runs under
> RCU and netif_addr_lock_bh() without RTNL. After each round cb->seq is
> set from the dev->mc generation counter and dev_base_seq and checked
> like rtnl_dump_ifinfo() does, so an entry added or removed since the
> previous round sets NLM_F_DUMP_INTR.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <sigefriedhyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-09 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 11:58 [PATCH net-next v10 0/6] rtnetlink: dump link-layer multicast addresses Yuyang Huang
2026-10-07 11:58 ` [PATCH net-next v10 1/6] netlink: specs: rt-addr: fix the type of target-netnsid Yuyang Huang
2026-10-09 11:58 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-07 11:58 ` [PATCH net-next v10 2/6] net: change netdev_hw_addr_list count through helpers Yuyang Huang
2026-10-07 11:58 ` [PATCH net-next v10 3/6] net: add a generation counter for dev->mc changes Yuyang Huang
2026-10-09 9:50 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2026-10-09 11:58 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-07 11:58 ` [PATCH net-next v10 4/6] net: add AF_PACKET multicast dumps Yuyang Huang
2026-10-09 9:57 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2026-10-09 11:58 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-07 11:58 ` [PATCH net-next v10 5/6] netlink: specs: rt-addr: document " Yuyang Huang
2026-10-07 11:58 ` [PATCH net-next v10 6/6] selftests: net: test " Yuyang Huang
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