From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Fabian Bläse" <fabian@blaese.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Backport switchdev fix for bridge-in-bridge configurations to linux-5.4
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:33:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXAMlYYM60/H3l+F@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4be2f5fb-9694-2244-9d5f-a85edff0199f@blaese.de>
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 03:08:00PM +0200, Fabian Bläse wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to backport the commit "net: switchdev: do not propagate bridge updates across bridges" [1] to linux-5.4?
>
> This patch fixes faulty hardware configuration when nesting DSA-offloaded bridges into software bridges, which can cause vlan_filtering to be disabled in hardware, even though it should be enabled. Therefore, ports/vlans get connected, even though they should be isolated.
>
> A backport of this patch for linux-5.4 has recently been accepted in OpenWrt [2]
>
> Best regards,
> Fabian Bläse
>
> [1] 07c6f9805f12f1bb538ef165a092b300350384aa
> [2] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4493
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2021-10-19 13:08 Backport switchdev fix for bridge-in-bridge configurations to linux-5.4 Fabian Bläse
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