Re: [PATCH net] net: bridge: clear bridge's private skb space on xmit

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From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:26:16 +0300

> We need to clear all of the bridge private skb variables as they can be
> stale due to the packet being recirculated through the stack and then
> transmitted through the bridge device. Similar memset is already done on
> bridge's input. We've seen cases where proxyarp_replied was 1 on routed
> multicast packets transmitted through the bridge to ports with neigh
> suppress which were getting dropped. Same thing can in theory happen with
> the port isolation bit as well.
> 
> Fixes: 821f1b21cabb ("bridge: add new BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS port flag to suppress arp and nd flood")
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.



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