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Re: Problem with bridge (mcast-to-ucast + hairpin) and Broadcom's 802.11f in their FullMAC fw

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On 03/13/2018 12:01 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:42:48 +0100
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2) Blame bridge + mcast-to-ucast + hairpin for 802.11f incompatibility

If we agree that 802.11f support in FullMAC firmware is acceptable, then
we have to make sure Linux's bridge doesn't break it by passing 802.11f
(broadcast) frames back to the source interface. That would require a
check like in below diff + proper code for handling such packets. I'm
afraid I'm not familiar with bridge code enough to complete that.

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_input.c b/net/bridge/br_input.c
index edae702..9e5d6ea 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_input.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_input.c
@@ -126,6 +126,27 @@ static void br_do_proxy_arp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_bridge *br,
  	}
  }

+static bool br_skb_is_iapp_add_packet(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	const u8 iapp_add_packet[6] __aligned(2) = {
+		0x00, 0x01, 0xaf, 0x81, 0x01, 0x00,
+	};
+#if !defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
+	const u16 *a = (const u16 *)skb->data;
+	const u16 *b = (const u16 *)iapp_add_packet;
+#endif
+
+	if (skb->len != 6)
+		return false;
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
+	return !(((*(const u32 *)skb->data) ^ (*(const u32 *)iapp_add_packet)) |
+	         ((*(const u16 *)(skb->data + 4)) ^ (*(const u16 *)(iapp_add_packet + 4))));
+#else
+	return !((a[0] ^ b[0]) | (a[1] ^ b[1]) | (a[2] ^ b[2]));
+#endif
+}
+
  /* note: already called with rcu_read_lock */
  int br_handle_frame_finish(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
  {
@@ -155,6 +176,8 @@ int br_handle_frame_finish(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb
  	if (is_multicast_ether_addr(dest)) {
  		/* by definition the broadcast is also a multicast address */
  		if (is_broadcast_ether_addr(dest)) {
+			if (br_skb_is_iapp_add_packet(skb))
+				pr_warn("This packet should not be passed back to the source interface!\n");
  			pkt_type = BR_PKT_BROADCAST;
  			local_rcv = true;
  		} else {


Don't like bridge doing special case code for magic received values directly in input path.
Really needs to be generic which is why I suggested ebtables.

We need in-bridge solution only if we decide to support FullMAC
firmwares with 802.11f implementation.

In that case is this possible to use ebtables as a workaround at all?
Can I really use ebtables to set switch to don't pass 802.11f ADD frames
back to the original interface?



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