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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com> | 2016-03-08 12:59:35 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-03-11 14:58:58 -0500 |
| commit | 4c656c13b254d598e83e586b7b4d36a2043dad85 (patch) | |
| tree | 02e8b364036b21cb569d138aaa52e0d70f0e27e9 /net/bridge/br_stp.c | |
| parent | 88de1cd457e5cb664d6d437e2ea4750d089165f5 (diff) | |
bridge: allow zero ageing time
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_stp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/bridge/br_stp.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp.c b/net/bridge/br_stp.c index c22816a0b1b1..e23449094188 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_stp.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp.c @@ -562,6 +562,14 @@ 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 = { @@ -573,9 +581,6 @@ 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; |