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Re: [PATCH net] net: bridge: Do not offload IGMP/MLD messages

From: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com>
Date: 2025-07-02 08:41:50
Also in: bridge, lkml

On tis, jul 01, 2025 at 15:36, Joseph Huang [off-list ref] wrote:
Do not offload IGMP/MLD messages as it could lead to IGMP/MLD Reports
being unintentionally flooded to Hosts. Instead, let the bridge decide
where to send these IGMP/MLD messages.
Hi Joseph,

Do I understand the situation correctly that this is the case where the
local host is sending out reports in response to a remote querier?

       mcast-listener-process (IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP)
          \
          br0
         /   \
      swp1   swp2
        |     |
  QUERIER     SOME-OTHER-HOST

So in the above setup, br0 will want to br_forward() reports for
mcast-listener-process's group(s) via swp1 to QUERIER; but since the
source hwdom is 0, the report is eligible for tx offloading, and is
flooded by hardware to both swp1 and swp2, reaching SOME-OTHER-HOST as
well?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Fixes: 472111920f1c ("net: bridge: switchdev: allow the TX data plane forwarding to be offloaded")
Signed-off-by: Joseph Huang <redacted>
---
 net/bridge/br_switchdev.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
index 95d7355a0407..757c34bf5931 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ static bool nbp_switchdev_can_offload_tx_fwd(const struct net_bridge_port *p,
 		return false;
 
 	return (p->flags & BR_TX_FWD_OFFLOAD) &&
-	       (p->hwdom != BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->src_hwdom);
+	       (p->hwdom != BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->src_hwdom) &&
+	       !br_multicast_igmp_type(skb);
 }
 
 bool br_switchdev_frame_uses_tx_fwd_offload(struct sk_buff *skb)
-- 
2.49.0
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