Pause frames should never make it out of the network device into
the stack. But if a device was misconfigured, it might happen.
So drop pause frames in bridge.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--- bridge-2.6.22.orig/include/linux/if_ether.h
+++ bridge-2.6.22/include/linux/if_ether.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
#define ETH_P_8021Q 0x8100 /* 802.1Q VLAN Extended Header */
#define ETH_P_IPX 0x8137 /* IPX over DIX */
#define ETH_P_IPV6 0x86DD /* IPv6 over bluebook */
+#define ETH_P_PAUSE 0x8808 /* IEEE Pause frames. See 802.3 31B */
#define ETH_P_SLOW 0x8809 /* Slow Protocol. See 802.3ad 43B */
#define ETH_P_WCCP 0x883E /* Web-cache coordination protocol
* defined in draft-wilson-wrec-wccp-v2-00.txt */
--- bridge-2.6.22.orig/net/bridge/br_input.c
+++ bridge-2.6.22/net/bridge/br_input.c
@@ -131,9 +131,14 @@ struct sk_buff *br_handle_frame(struct n
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(eth_hdr(skb)->h_source))
goto drop;
- if (unlikely(is_link_local(dest)))
+ if (unlikely(is_link_local(dest))) {
+ /* Pause frames shouldn't be passed up by driver anyway */
+ if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_PAUSE))
+ goto drop;
+
return (NF_HOOK(PF_BRIDGE, NF_BR_LOCAL_IN, skb, skb->dev,
NULL, br_handle_local_finish) == 0) ? skb : NULL;
+ }
switch (p->state) {
case BR_STATE_FORWARDING:
--
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