On 2017/10/26 22:41, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote: > Before this patch there was no way to tell if the vlan add operation > actually changed anything, thus we would always generate a notification > on adds. Let's make the notifications more precise and generate them > only if anything changed, so use the new bool parameter to signal that the > vlan was updated. We cannot return an error because there are valid use > cases that will be broken (e.g. overlapping range add) and also we can't > risk masking errors due to calls into drivers for vlan add which can > potentially return anything. > > Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
Thanks for the explanation in the previous mail. > --- ... > @@ -576,8 +592,11 @@ int br_vlan_add(struct net_bridge *br, u16 vid, u16 > flags) > refcount_inc(&vlan->refcnt); > vlan->flags |= BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_BRENTRY; > vg->num_vlans++; > + *changed = true; > } > - __vlan_add_flags(vlan, flags); > + if (__vlan_add_flags(vlan, flags)) > + *changed = true; > + > return 0; > } > > @@ -601,6 +620,7 @@ int br_vlan_add(struct net_bridge *br, u16 vid, u16 flags) > free_percpu(vlan->stats); > kfree(vlan); We should not set changed=true in this failure case? > } > + *changed = true; > > return ret; > } ... > @@ -1050,6 +1083,7 @@ int nbp_vlan_add(struct net_bridge_port *port, u16 vid, > u16 flags) > ret = __vlan_add(vlan, flags); > if (ret) > kfree(vlan); Likewise. > + *changed = true; > > return ret; > } > -- Toshiaki Makita