Patch "bridge: allow zero ageing time" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    bridge: allow zero ageing time

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     bridge-allow-zero-ageing-time.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:59:35 -0800
Subject: bridge: allow zero ageing time

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>

[ Upstream commit 4c656c13b254d598e83e586b7b4d36a2043dad85 ]

This fixes a regression in the bridge ageing time caused by:
commit c62987bbd8a1 ("bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to switchdev")

There are users of Linux bridge which use the feature that if ageing time
is set to 0 it causes entries to never expire. See:
  https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge

For a pure software bridge, it is unnecessary for the code to have
arbitrary restrictions on what values are allowable.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/if_bridge.h |    4 ----
 net/bridge/br_stp.c       |   11 ++++++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/if_bridge.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_bridge.h
@@ -46,10 +46,6 @@ struct br_ip_list {
 #define BR_LEARNING_SYNC	BIT(9)
 #define BR_PROXYARP_WIFI	BIT(10)
 
-/* values as per ieee8021QBridgeFdbAgingTime */
-#define BR_MIN_AGEING_TIME	(10 * HZ)
-#define BR_MAX_AGEING_TIME	(1000000 * HZ)
-
 #define BR_DEFAULT_AGEING_TIME	(300 * HZ)
 
 extern void brioctl_set(int (*ioctl_hook)(struct net *, unsigned int, void __user *));
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp.c
@@ -567,6 +567,14 @@ int br_set_max_age(struct net_bridge *br
 
 }
 
+/* Set time interval that dynamic forwarding entries live
+ * For pure software bridge, allow values outside the 802.1
+ * standard specification for special cases:
+ *  0 - entry never ages (all permanant)
+ *  1 - entry disappears (no persistance)
+ *
+ * Offloaded switch entries maybe more restrictive
+ */
 int br_set_ageing_time(struct net_bridge *br, u32 ageing_time)
 {
 	struct switchdev_attr attr = {
@@ -577,9 +585,6 @@ int br_set_ageing_time(struct net_bridge
 	unsigned long t = clock_t_to_jiffies(ageing_time);
 	int err;
 
-	if (t < BR_MIN_AGEING_TIME || t > BR_MAX_AGEING_TIME)
-		return -ERANGE;
-
 	err = switchdev_port_attr_set(br->dev, &attr);
 	if (err)
 		return err;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shemming@brocade.com are

queue-4.4/bridge-allow-zero-ageing-time.patch