This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: bridge: use switchdev for port flags set through sysfs too to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-bridge-use-switchdev-for-port-flags-set-through-sysfs-too.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8043c845b63a2dd88daf2d2d268a33e1872800f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 21:47:33 +0200 Subject: net: bridge: use switchdev for port flags set through sysfs too From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> commit 8043c845b63a2dd88daf2d2d268a33e1872800f0 upstream. Looking through patchwork I don't see that there was any consensus to use switchdev notifiers only in case of netlink provided port flags but not sysfs (as a sort of deprecation, punishment or anything like that), so we should probably keep the user interface consistent in terms of functionality. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/20170605092043.3523-3-jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/20170608064428.4785-3-jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx/ Fixes: 3922285d96e7 ("net: bridge: Add support for offloading port attributes") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c @@ -59,9 +59,8 @@ static BRPORT_ATTR(_name, 0644, \ static int store_flag(struct net_bridge_port *p, unsigned long v, unsigned long mask) { - unsigned long flags; - - flags = p->flags; + unsigned long flags = p->flags; + int err; if (v) flags |= mask; @@ -69,6 +68,10 @@ static int store_flag(struct net_bridge_ flags &= ~mask; if (flags != p->flags) { + err = br_switchdev_set_port_flag(p, flags, mask); + if (err) + return err; + p->flags = flags; br_port_flags_change(p, mask); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx are queue-4.19/net-bridge-use-switchdev-for-port-flags-set-through-sysfs-too.patch