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    mlxsw: spectrum: Treat IPv6 unregistered multicast as broadcast · 9d45deb0
    Ido Schimmel authored
    When multicast snooping is enabled, the Linux bridge resorts to flooding
    unregistered multicast packets to all ports only in case it did not
    detect a querier in the network.
    
    The above condition is not reflected to underlying drivers, which is
    especially problematic in IPv6 environments, as multicast snooping is
    enabled by default and since neighbour solicitation packets might be
    treated as unregistered multicast packets in case there is no
    corresponding MDB entry.
    
    Until the Linux bridge reflects its querier state to underlying drivers,
    simply treat unregistered multicast packets as broadcast and allow them
    to reach their destination.
    
    Fixes: 9df552ef ("mlxsw: spectrum: Improve IPv6 unregistered multicast flooding")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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