Re: [PATCH 2/3] bridge: trigger a bridge calculation upon port changes

From: Cong Wang
Date: Thu Mar 13 2014 - 14:26:36 EST


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> spin_lock_bh(&p->br->lock);
> err = br_setport(p, tb);
> + changed = br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(p->br);

Looks like you only want to check if the mac addr gets changed here,
but br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id() does more than just checking it,
are you sure the side-effects are all what you want here?

> spin_unlock_bh(&p->br->lock);
> + if (changed)
> + call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR,
> + p->br->dev);
> + netdev_update_features(p->br->dev);

I think this is supposed to be in netdev event handler of br->dev
instead of here.
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