Certain DSA switches can eliminate flooding to the CPU when none of the ports have the IFF_ALLMULTI or IFF_PROMISC flags set. This is done by synthesizing a call to dsa_port_bridge_flags() for the CPU port, a call which normally comes from the bridge driver via switchdev. The bridge port flags and IFF_PROMISC|IFF_ALLMULTI have slightly different semantics, and due to inattention/lack of proper testing, the IFF_PROMISC flag allows unknown unicast to be flooded to the CPU, but not unknown multicast. This must be fixed by setting both BR_FLOOD (unicast) and BR_MCAST_FLOOD in the synthesized dsa_port_bridge_flags() call, since IFF_PROMISC means that packets should not be filtered regardless of their MAC DA. Fixes: 7569459a52c9 ("net: dsa: manage flooding on the CPU ports") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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