Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 1/6] net: bridge: add locked entry fdb flag to extend locked port feature
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Date: 2022-08-29 16:13:01
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 04:02:46PM +0200, netdev@kapio-technology.com wrote:
On 2022-08-27 13:30, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:quoted
On 26/08/2022 14:45, Hans Schultz wrote: Hi, Please add the blackhole flag in a separate patch. A few more comments and questions below..Hi, if userspace is to set this flag I think I need to change stuff in rtnetlink.c, as I will need to extent struct ndmsg with a new u32 entry as the old u8 flags is full.
You cannot extend 'struct ndmsg'. That's why 'NDA_FLAGS_EXT' was introduced. See: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2c611ad97a82b51221bb0920cc6cac0b1d4c0e52 'NTF_EXT_BLACKHOLE' belongs in 'NDA_FLAGS_EXT' like you have it now, but the kernel should not reject it in br_fdb_add().
Maybe this is straight forward, but I am not so sure as I don't know that code too well. Maybe someone can give me a hint...?