Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: notify on vlan tunnel changes done via the old api

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From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:05:04 +0300

> If someone uses the old vlan API to configure tunnel mappings we'll only
> generate the old-style full port notification. That would be a problem
> if we are monitoring the new vlan notifications for changes. The patch
> resolves the issue by adding vlan notifications to the old tunnel netlink
> code. As usual we try to compress the notifications for as many vlans
> in a range as possible, thus a vlan tunnel change is considered able
> to enter the "current" vlan notification range if:
>  1. vlan exists
>  2. it has actually changed (curr_change == true)
>  3. it passes all standard vlan notification range checks done by
>     br_vlan_can_enter_range() such as option equality, id continuity etc
> 
> Note that vlan tunnel changes (add/del) are considered a part of vlan
> options so only RTM_NEWVLAN notification is generated with the relevant
> information inside.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.



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