From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp
Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org, vyasevic@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net 0/9] bridge: Fix corner case problems around local fdb entries
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:36:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140210.143601.844510611024679530.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391759306-24956-1-git-send-email-makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
From: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:48:17 +0900
> There are so many corner cases that are not handled properly around local
> fdb entries.
> - We might fail to delete the old entry and might delete an arbitrary local
> entry when changing mac address of a bridge port.
> - We always fail to delete the old entry when changing mac address of the
> bridge device.
> - We might incorrectly delete a necessary entry when detaching a bridge port.
> - We might incorrectly delete a necessary entry when deleting a vlan.
> and so on.
>
> This is a patch series to fix these issues.
Series applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-10 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-07 7:48 [PATCH v3 net 0/9] bridge: Fix corner case problems around local fdb entries Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-07 7:48 ` [PATCH v3 net 1/9] bridge: Fix the way to find old local fdb entries in br_fdb_changeaddr Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-07 7:48 ` [PATCH v3 net 2/9] bridge: Fix the way to insert new " Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-07 16:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-02-08 2:43 ` Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-07 7:48 ` [PATCH v3 net 3/9] bridge: Fix the way to find old local fdb entries in br_fdb_change_mac_address Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-07 7:48 ` [PATCH v3 net 4/9] bridge: Change local fdb entries whenever mac address of bridge device changes Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-07 7:48 ` [PATCH v3 net 5/9] bridge: Fix the way to check if a local fdb entry can be deleted Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-10 17:22 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-07 7:48 ` [PATCH v3 net 6/9] bridge: Properly check if local fdb entry can be deleted in br_fdb_change_mac_address Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-07 7:48 ` [PATCH v3 net 7/9] bridge: Properly check if local fdb entry can be deleted in br_fdb_delete_by_port Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-10 17:37 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-07 7:48 ` [PATCH v3 net 8/9] bridge: Properly check if local fdb entry can be deleted when deleting vlan Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-07 7:48 ` [PATCH v3 net 9/9] bridge: Prevent possible race condition in br_fdb_change_mac_address Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-10 22:36 ` David Miller [this message]
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