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authorMahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>2018-09-25 00:39:42 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-09-27 06:21:27 +0300
commit6a9e461f6fe4434e6172304b69774daff9a3ac4c (patch)
treeadf8122cea020b4569f7bb8bf33f6d9178c8187a /drivers/net/bonding
parentd3a315795b4ce8b105a64a90699103121bde04a8 (diff)
downloadlinux-6a9e461f6fe4434e6172304b69774daff9a3ac4c.tar.xz
bonding: pass link-local packets to bonding master also.
Commit b89f04c61efe ("bonding: deliver link-local packets with skb->dev set to link that packets arrived on") changed the behavior of how link-local-multicast packets are processed. The change in the behavior broke some legacy use cases where these packets are expected to arrive on bonding master device also. This patch passes the packet to the stack with the link it arrived on as well as passes to the bonding-master device to preserve the legacy use case. Fixes: b89f04c61efe ("bonding: deliver link-local packets with skb->dev set to link that packets arrived on") Reported-by: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bonding')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c21
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 0d87e11e7f1d..8c0a0908875d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -1170,9 +1170,26 @@ static rx_handler_result_t bond_handle_frame(struct sk_buff **pskb)
}
}
- /* don't change skb->dev for link-local packets */
- if (is_link_local_ether_addr(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest))
+ /* Link-local multicast packets should be passed to the
+ * stack on the link they arrive as well as pass them to the
+ * bond-master device. These packets are mostly usable when
+ * stack receives it with the link on which they arrive
+ * (e.g. LLDP) they also must be available on master. Some of
+ * the use cases include (but are not limited to): LLDP agents
+ * that must be able to operate both on enslaved interfaces as
+ * well as on bonds themselves; linux bridges that must be able
+ * to process/pass BPDUs from attached bonds when any kind of
+ * STP version is enabled on the network.
+ */
+ if (is_link_local_ether_addr(eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest)) {
+ struct sk_buff *nskb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+
+ if (nskb) {
+ nskb->dev = bond->dev;
+ netif_rx(nskb);
+ }
return RX_HANDLER_PASS;
+ }
if (bond_should_deliver_exact_match(skb, slave, bond))
return RX_HANDLER_EXACT;