Hi, The following patches are splitting the so far combined multicast router state in the Linux bridge into two ones, one for IPv4 and one for IPv6, for a more fine-grained detection of multicast routers. This avoids sending IPv4 multicast packets to an IPv6-only multicast router and avoids sending IPv6 multicast packets to an IPv4-only multicast router. This also allows batman-adv to make use of the now split information in the final patch. The first eight patches prepare the bridge code to avoid duplicate code or IPv6-#ifdef clutter for the multicast router state split. And contain no functional changes yet. The ninth patch then implements the IPv4+IPv6 multicast router state split. Patch number ten adds IPv4+IPv6 specific timers to the mdb netlink router port dump, so that the timers validity can be checked individually from userspace. The final, eleventh patch exports this now per protocol family multicast router state so that batman-adv can then later make full use of the Multicast Router Discovery (MRD) support in the Linux bridge. The batman-adv protocol format currently expects separate multicast router states for IPv4 and IPv6, therefore it depends on the first patch. batman-adv will then make use of this newly exported functions like this[0]. Regards, Linus [0]: https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/shortlog/refs/heads/linus/multicast-routeable-mrd -> https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commit/d4bed3a92427445708baeb1f2d1841c5fb816fd4 Changelog v4: * Patch 01/11: * unchanged * Patch 02/11: * renaming br_multicast_rport_from_node() to br_multicast_rport_from_node() to be able to use the name of the former later in Patch 7 in br_multicast.c * Patch 03/11 to 06/11: * unchanged * Patch 07/11: * fixing >80 characters line length of br_ip4_multicast_get_rport_slot() * restructuring br_(ip4_)multicast_get_rport_slot() and br_(ip4_)multicast_mark_router() to reduce duplicate code, br_multicast_get_rport_slot() is moved into br_multicast_add_router() and uses hlist_for_each() instead of hlist_for_each_entry() and a helper function to be protocol independent * removed redundant hlist_unhashed(&port->ip4_rlist)) check in __br_multicast_enable_port(), br_ip4_multicast_add_router() already checks this * Patch 08/11: * unchanged * Patch 09/11: * fixing >80 characters line length of br_ip6_multicast_get_rport_slot() * removed inline attribute from br_ip6_multicast_add_router() and br_ip6_multicast_mark_router() in the !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) case * removed redundant hlist_unhashed(&port->ip6_rlist)) check in __br_multicast_enable_port(), br_ip6_multicast_add_router() already checks this, which removes some IPv6 ifdef clutter in __br_multicast_enable_port() * Patch 10/11 + 11/11: * unchanged Changelog v3: * Patch 01/11: * fixed/added missing rename of br->router_list to br->ip4_mc_router_list in br_multicast_flood() * Patch 02/11: * moved inline functions from br_forward.c to br_private.h * Patch 03/11: * removed inline attribute from functions added to br_mdb.c * Patch 04/11: * unchanged * Patch 05/11: * converted if()'s into switch-case in br_multicast_is_router() * Patch 06/11: * removed inline attribute from function added to br_multicast.c * Patch 07/11: * added missing static attribute to function br_ip4_multicast_get_rport_slot() added to br_multicast.c * Patch 08/11: * removed inline attribute from function added to br_multicast.c * Patch 09/11: * added missing static attribute to function br_ip6_multicast_get_rport_slot() added to br_multicast.c * removed inline attribute from function added to br_multicast.c * Patch 10/11: * unchanged * Patch 11/11: * simplified bridge check in br_multicast_has_router_adjacent() by using br_port_get_check_rcu() * added missing declaration for br_multicast_has_router_adjacent() in include/linux/if_bridge.h Changelog v2: * split into multiple patches as suggested by Nikolay * added helper functions to br_multicast_flood(), avoiding IPv6 #ifdef clutter * fixed reverse xmas tree ordering in br_rports_fill_info() and added helper functions to avoid IPv6 #ifdef clutter * Added a common br_multicast_add_router() and a helper function to retrieve the correct slot to avoid duplicate code for an ip4 and ip6 variant * replaced the "1" and "2" constants in br_multicast_is_router() with the appropriate enums * added br_{ip4,ip6}_multicast_rport_del() wrappers to reduce IPv6 #ifdef clutter * added return values to br_*multicast_rport_del() to only notify if the port was actually removed and did not race with a readdition somewhere else * added empty, void br_ip6_multicast_mark_router() if compiled without IPv6, to reduce IPv6 #ifdef clutter