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net: bridge: allow IPv6 when multicast flood is disabled
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Even with multicast flooding turned off, IPv6 ND should still work so
that IPv6 connectivity is provided. Allow this by continuing to flood
multicast traffic originated by us.

Fixes: b6cb5ac ("net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag")
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@brocade.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Mike Manning authored and David S. Miller committed Mar 2, 2017
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion net/bridge/br_forward.c
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Expand Up @@ -186,8 +186,9 @@ void br_flood(struct net_bridge *br, struct sk_buff *skb,
/* Do not flood unicast traffic to ports that turn it off */
if (pkt_type == BR_PKT_UNICAST && !(p->flags & BR_FLOOD))
continue;
/* Do not flood if mc off, except for traffic we originate */
if (pkt_type == BR_PKT_MULTICAST &&
!(p->flags & BR_MCAST_FLOOD))
!(p->flags & BR_MCAST_FLOOD) && skb->dev != br->dev)
continue;

/* Do not flood to ports that enable proxy ARP */
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