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IPv6 multicast snooping behaviour on 2.6.39-rc2 and later

Message ID 1314093424.2219.3.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC
State RFC, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Eric Dumazet Aug. 23, 2011, 9:57 a.m. UTC
Le mardi 23 août 2011 à 17:41 +0900, Ang Way Chuang a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
>     Sorry for cross-posting. I have a testbed setup on my VM
> environment that needs to use MLDv2 report message. My PIM router
> which is connected to a port on the bridge relies upon MLDv2 message
> to work. However, the setup failed to work after 2.6.39-rc2 or later.
> MLDv2 won't be forwarded to any slave ports bound to the bridge
> interface. Specifically, I track the cause down to this commit id:
> 
>       ff9a57a62afbbe2d0f3a09af321f1fd7645f38a5
> 
>     However, as soon as I disable multicast snooping on sysfs, MLDv2
> message can be forwarded again.
> 
>     I am not knowledgeable on the subject of multicast snooping, but
> is this right behaviour for multicast snooping? IPv4 doesn't seem to
> suffer the same fate though, IGMP can be forwarded even if
> multicast_snooping is enabled. Thank you in advance.
> 

Thanks very much for the report and your tracking.

Added some CC

I wonder if the  ff9a57a62afb commit doesnt uncover a prior bug, could
you try the following patch ?

Thanks !



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Comments

Ang Way Chuang Aug. 23, 2011, 12:31 p.m. UTC | #1
Sorry for the blurb. I hope I've configured thunderbird properly to send in plain text. Hope you received my reply. I tried your patch on 3.0.3 and it didn't fix the problem.

Regards,
Ang

On 23/08/11 18:57, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 23 août 2011 à 17:41 +0900, Ang Way Chuang a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>>      Sorry for cross-posting. I have a testbed setup on my VM
>> environment that needs to use MLDv2 report message. My PIM router
>> which is connected to a port on the bridge relies upon MLDv2 message
>> to work. However, the setup failed to work after 2.6.39-rc2 or later.
>> MLDv2 won't be forwarded to any slave ports bound to the bridge
>> interface. Specifically, I track the cause down to this commit id:
>>
>>        ff9a57a62afbbe2d0f3a09af321f1fd7645f38a5
>>
>>      However, as soon as I disable multicast snooping on sysfs, MLDv2
>> message can be forwarded again.
>>
>>      I am not knowledgeable on the subject of multicast snooping, but
>> is this right behaviour for multicast snooping? IPv4 doesn't seem to
>> suffer the same fate though, IGMP can be forwarded even if
>> multicast_snooping is enabled. Thank you in advance.
>>
> Thanks very much for the report and your tracking.
>
> Added some CC
>
> I wonder if the  ff9a57a62afb commit doesnt uncover a prior bug, could
> you try the following patch ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> index 2d85ca7..51e3b2d 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> @@ -1520,6 +1520,7 @@ static int br_multicast_ipv6_rcv(struct net_bridge *br,
>   		err = pskb_trim_rcsum(skb2, len);
>   		if (err)
>   			goto out;
> +		icmp6h = icmp6_hdr(skb2);
>   	}
>
>   	switch (skb2->ip_summed) {
>
>
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Patch

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index 2d85ca7..51e3b2d 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -1520,6 +1520,7 @@  static int br_multicast_ipv6_rcv(struct net_bridge *br,
 		err = pskb_trim_rcsum(skb2, len);
 		if (err)
 			goto out;
+		icmp6h = icmp6_hdr(skb2);
 	}
 
 	switch (skb2->ip_summed) {