The brX interface will soon become a member of the bridge. As such, it will get a receiver handler assigned. However, we don't want to handle packets received on this soft interfaces. So detect the condition and say all the packets pass. --- net/bridge/br_input.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_input.c b/net/bridge/br_input.c index 7637f58c1226..38c2a41968f2 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_input.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_input.c @@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ rx_handler_result_t br_handle_frame(struct sk_buff **pskb) return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED; p = br_port_get_rcu(skb->dev); + + if (p->dev == p->br->dev) + return RX_HANDLER_PASS; + if (p->flags & BR_VLAN_TUNNEL) { if (br_handle_ingress_vlan_tunnel(skb, p, nbp_vlan_group_rcu(p))) -- 2.14.1