From acbea202fbba11c52df2fd4040c19bb796fd37fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:59:35 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bridge: allow zero ageing time
[ 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(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/if_bridge.h b/include/linux/if_bridge.h
index a338a688ee4a..dcb89e3515db 100644
--- 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 *));
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp.c b/net/bridge/br_stp.c
index 5f3f64553179..0e658f47a5da 100644
--- 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, unsigned long val)
}
+/* 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 *br, u32 ageing_time)
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;