linux/net/bridge
Vitalii Demianets b03b6dd58c bridge: master device stuck in no-carrier state forever when in user-stp mode
When in user-stp mode, bridge master do not follow state of its slaves, so
after the following sequence of events it can stuck forever in no-carrier
state:
1) turn stp off
2) put all slaves down - master device will follow their state and also go in
no-carrier state
3) turn stp on with bridge-stp script returning 0 (go to the user-stp mode)
Now bridge master won't follow slaves' state and will never reach running
state.

This patch solves the problem by making user-stp and kernel-stp behavior
similar regarding master following slaves' states.

Signed-off-by: Vitalii Demianets <vitas@nppfactor.kiev.ua>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-01 14:05:17 -05:00
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netfilter netfilter: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages 2011-11-01 09:19:49 +01:00
Kconfig net: bridge builtin vs. ipv6 modular 2011-03-10 13:45:57 -08:00
Makefile bridge: Add core IGMP snooping support 2010-02-28 00:48:45 -08:00
br.c bridge: allow creating bridge devices with netlink 2011-04-04 17:22:28 -07:00
br_device.c Merge branch 'master' of github.com:davem330/net 2011-10-07 13:38:43 -04:00
br_fdb.c bridge: allow updating existing fdb entries 2011-10-03 12:17:33 -04:00
br_forward.c net: bridge: check the length of skb after nf_bridge_maybe_copy_header() 2011-01-06 11:33:05 -08:00
br_if.c Merge branch 'master' of ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-10-24 18:18:09 -04:00
br_input.c net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
br_ioctl.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-04-11 13:44:25 -07:00
br_multicast.c bridge: correct IPv6 checksum after pull 2011-11-16 17:32:43 -05:00
br_netfilter.c net: Add ->neigh_lookup() operation to dst_ops 2011-07-18 00:40:17 -07:00
br_netlink.c bridge: master device stuck in no-carrier state forever when in user-stp mode 2011-12-01 14:05:17 -05:00
br_notify.c Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change. 2011-08-09 21:44:44 -07:00
br_private.h Merge branch 'master' of ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-10-24 18:18:09 -04:00
br_private_stp.h bridge: minor cleanups 2011-07-22 17:01:13 -07:00
br_stp.c bridge: master device stuck in no-carrier state forever when in user-stp mode 2011-12-01 14:05:17 -05:00
br_stp_bpdu.c bridge: minor cleanups 2011-07-22 17:01:13 -07:00
br_stp_if.c net: fix implicit kmod.h usage in bridge/br_stp_if.c 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
br_stp_timer.c bridge: add notification over netlink when STP changes state 2011-07-22 17:01:12 -07:00
br_sysfs_br.c bridge: allow forwarding some link local frames 2011-10-06 15:27:56 -04:00
br_sysfs_if.c bridge: range check STP parameters 2011-04-04 17:22:29 -07:00