From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Backlund Subject: [libvirt] the patch "bridge: export multicast database via netlink" broke kernel 3.8 uapi (was: Re: if_bridge.h: include in6.h for struct in6_addr use) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:03:02 +0200 Message-ID: <50F52956.50201@mageia.org> References: <50F2FF1B.3020708@mageia.org> <50F313A5.3020707@mageia.org> <50F49B7E.50906@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tgraf@suug.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libvirt-list@redhat.com To: amwang@redhat.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <50F49B7E.50906@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Eric Blake skrev 15.1.2013 01:57: > On 01/13/2013 01:05 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote: >> Thomas Backlund skrev 13.1.2013 20:38: >>> patch both inline and attached as thunderbird tends to mess up ... >> >>> ----- >>> >>> if_bridge.h uses struct in6_addr ip6; but does not include the in6.h >>> header. >>> >>> Found by trying to build libvirt and connman against 3.8-rc3 headers. >>> >> >> Ok, >> ignore this patch, it's not the correct fix as it introduces >> redefinitions... >> >> Btw, the error that I hit that made me suggest this fix was libvirt >> config check bailing out: >> >> config.log:/usr/include/linux/if_bridge.h:173:20: error: field 'ip6' has >> incomplete type > > Hmm, just now noticing this thread, after independently hitting and and > having to work around the same problem in libvirt: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-January/msg00930.html > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895141 Yep, and the commit breaking uapi headers is by using "struct in6_addr ip6" is: From ee07c6e7a6f8a25c18f0a6b18152fbd7499245f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cong Wang Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:04:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bridge: export multicast database via netlink V5: fix two bugs pointed out by Thomas remove seq check for now, mark it as TODO V4: remove some useless #include some coding style fix V3: drop debugging printk's update selinux perm table as well V2: drop patch 1/2, export ifindex directly Redesign netlink attributes Improve netlink seq check Handle IPv6 addr as well This patch exports bridge multicast database via netlink message type RTM_GETMDB. Similar to fdb, but currently bridge-specific. We may need to support modify multicast database too (RTM_{ADD,DEL}MDB). (Thanks to Thomas for patient reviews) Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Graf Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Acked-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h | 55 ++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h | 3 + net/bridge/Makefile | 2 +- net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 163 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 1 + net/bridge/br_private.h | 1 + security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c | 1 + 7 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) create mode 100644 net/bridge/br_mdb.c -- Thomas