This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bridge: mdb: zero out the local br_ip variable before use to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bridge-mdb-zero-out-the-local-br_ip-variable-before-use.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Sep 26 11:13:07 PDT 2015 From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 15:55:56 +0200 Subject: bridge: mdb: zero out the local br_ip variable before use From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f1158b74e54f2e2462ba5e2f45a118246d9d5b43 ] Since commit b0e9a30dd669 ("bridge: Add vlan id to multicast groups") there's a check in br_ip_equal() for a matching vlan id, but the mdb functions were not modified to use (or at least zero it) so when an entry was added it would have a garbage vlan id (from the local br_ip variable in __br_mdb_add/del) and this would prevent it from being matched and also deleted. So zero out the whole local ip var to protect ourselves from future changes and also to fix the current bug, since there's no vlan id support in the mdb uapi - use always vlan id 0. Example before patch: root@debian:~# bridge mdb add dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent root@debian:~# bridge mdb dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent root@debian:~# bridge mdb del dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument After patch: root@debian:~# bridge mdb add dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent root@debian:~# bridge mdb dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent root@debian:~# bridge mdb del dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.1 permanent root@debian:~# bridge mdb Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: b0e9a30dd669 ("bridge: Add vlan id to multicast groups") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c @@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ static int __br_mdb_add(struct net *net, if (!p || p->br != br || p->state == BR_STATE_DISABLED) return -EINVAL; + memset(&ip, 0, sizeof(ip)); ip.proto = entry->addr.proto; if (ip.proto == htons(ETH_P_IP)) ip.u.ip4 = entry->addr.u.ip4; @@ -417,6 +418,7 @@ static int __br_mdb_del(struct net_bridg if (!netif_running(br->dev) || br->multicast_disabled) return -EINVAL; + memset(&ip, 0, sizeof(ip)); ip.proto = entry->addr.proto; if (ip.proto == htons(ETH_P_IP)) { if (timer_pending(&br->ip4_other_query.timer)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from razor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/bridge-mdb-zero-out-the-local-br_ip-variable-before-use.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html