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Ido Schimmel b4684a71d9 bridge: Redirect to backup port when port is administratively down
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If a backup port is configured for a bridge port, the bridge will
redirect known unicast traffic towards the backup port when the primary
port is administratively up but without a carrier. This is useful, for
example, in MLAG configurations where a system is connected to two
switches and there is a peer link between both switches. The peer link
serves as the backup port in case one of the switches loses its
connection to the multi-homed system.

In order to avoid flooding when the primary port loses its carrier, the
bridge does not flush dynamic FDB entries pointing to the port upon STP
disablement, if the port has a backup port.

The above means that known unicast traffic destined to the primary port
will be blackholed when the port is put administratively down, until the
FDB entries pointing to it are aged-out.

Given that the current behavior is quite weird and unlikely to be
depended on by anyone, amend the bridge to redirect to the backup port
also when the primary port is administratively down and not only when it
does not have a carrier.

The change is motivated by a report from a user who expected traffic to
be redirected to the backup port when the primary port was put
administratively down while debugging a network issue.

Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250812080213.325298-2-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-12-03 12:45:09 +01:00
arch powerpc/eeh: Use result of error_detected() in uevent 2025-12-03 12:45:09 +01:00
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