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[PATCH net-next v4 10/14] net: bridge: mcast: track active state, bridge up/down

From: Linus Lüssing <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-07 04:46:17
Also in: bridge, linux-kselftest, lkml
Subsystem: ethernet bridge, networking drivers, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Nikolay Aleksandrov, Ido Schimmel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

This is mainly for switchdev and DSA later: To ensure that we switch
to inactive before destroying a bridge interface. A switchdev/DSA driver
might have allocated resources after we switched to an enabled multicast
active state. This gives switchdev/DSA drivers a chance to free these
resources again when we destroy the bridge (later).

Putting it into the ndo_stop / bridge interface down part instead of the
ndo_uninit / bridge destroy part though for a better semantic match. If
the bridge interface is down / stopped then it is also inactive.

No functional change for the fast/data path.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <redacted>
---
 include/uapi/linux/if_link.h |  8 ++++----
 net/bridge/br_multicast.c    | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
index d963be8679b5..679368784643 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
@@ -748,14 +748,14 @@ enum in6_addr_gen_mode {
  * @IFLA_BR_MCAST_ACTIVE_V4
  *   Bridge IPv4 mcast active state, read only.
  *
- *   1 if *IFLA_BR_MCAST_SNOOPING* is enabled and an IGMP querier is present,
- *   0 otherwise.
+ *   1 if *IFLA_BR_MCAST_SNOOPING* is enabled, an IGMP querier is present
+ *   and the bridge interface is up, 0 otherwise.
  *
  * @IFLA_BR_MCAST_ACTIVE_V6
  *   Bridge IPv6 mcast active state, read only.
  *
- *   1 if *IFLA_BR_MCAST_SNOOPING* is enabled and an MLD querier is present,
- *   0 otherwise.
+ *   1 if *IFLA_BR_MCAST_SNOOPING* is enabled, an MLD querier is present
+ *   and the bridge interface is up, 0 otherwise.
  */
 enum {
 	IFLA_BR_UNSPEC,
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index 1059984d8147..cb78f9555db6 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ static void br_multicast_notify_active(struct net_bridge_mcast *brmctx,
  *
  * The multicast active state is set, per protocol family, if:
  *
+ * - the bridge interface is up
  * - multicast snooping is enabled
  * - an IGMP/MLD querier is present
  * - for own IPv6 MLD querier: an IPv6 link-local address is configured on the
@@ -1142,6 +1143,11 @@ static void br_multicast_update_active(struct net_bridge_mcast *brmctx)
 
 	lockdep_assert_held_once(&brmctx->br->multicast_lock);
 
+	if (!netif_running(brmctx->br->dev)) {
+		force_inactive = true;
+		goto update;
+	}
+
 	if (!br_opt_get(brmctx->br, BROPT_MULTICAST_ENABLED)) {
 		force_inactive = true;
 		goto update;
@@ -4431,6 +4437,9 @@ static void __br_multicast_open(struct net_bridge_mcast *brmctx)
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
 	__br_multicast_open_query(brmctx->br, &brmctx->ip6_own_query);
 #endif
+
+	/* bridge interface is up, maybe set multicast state to active */
+	br_multicast_update_active(brmctx);
 }
 
 static void br_multicast_open_locked(struct net_bridge *br)
@@ -4478,6 +4487,9 @@ static void __br_multicast_stop(struct net_bridge_mcast *brmctx)
 	timer_shutdown(&brmctx->ip6_other_query.delay_timer);
 	timer_shutdown(&brmctx->ip6_own_query.timer);
 #endif
+
+	/* bridge interface is down, set multicast state to inactive */
+	br_multicast_update_active(brmctx);
 }
 
 void br_multicast_update_vlan_mcast_ctx(struct net_bridge_vlan *v, u8 state)
-- 
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