Re: [PATCH stable 0/4] net: mscc: ocelot: allow unregistered IP multicast flooding

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 08:20:12PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> This series contains 4 patches (1 for each stable branch: 4.19, 5.4, 5.10 and 5.15)
> which fix 2 variations of the same problem:
> 
> - Between kernels 4.18 and 5.12, IP multicast flooding on ocelot ports
>   is completely broken, both for autonomous forwarding and for local CPU
>   termination. The patches for 4.19 and for 5.10 fix this.
> 
> - Between kernels 5.12 and 5.18, the flooding problem has been fixed for
>   autonomously forwarded IP multicast flows via a new feature commit
>   which cannot be backported, but still remains broken for local CPU
>   termination. The patch for 5.15 fixes this.
> 
> After kernel 5.18, the CPU flooding problem has also been fixed via a
> new feature commit which also cannot be backported. So in the current
> "net" tree, both kinds of IP multicast flooding work properly, and this
> is the reason why these patches target just the "stable" trees.

All now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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