This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv4: fix broadcast packets reception to the 4.4-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: ipv4-fix-broadcast-packets-reception.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016 From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:19:38 +0100 Subject: ipv4: fix broadcast packets reception From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ad0ea1989cc4d5905941d0a9e62c63ad6d859cef ] Currently, ingress ipv4 broadcast datagrams are dropped since, in udp_v4_early_demux(), ip_check_mc_rcu() is invoked even on bcast packets. This patch addresses the issue, invoking ip_check_mc_rcu() only for mcast packets. Fixes: 6e5403093261 ("ipv4/udp: Verify multicast group is ours in upd_v4_early_demux()") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/udp.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/udp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c @@ -1990,10 +1990,14 @@ void udp_v4_early_demux(struct sk_buff * if (!in_dev) return; - ours = ip_check_mc_rcu(in_dev, iph->daddr, iph->saddr, - iph->protocol); - if (!ours) - return; + /* we are supposed to accept bcast packets */ + if (skb->pkt_type == PACKET_MULTICAST) { + ours = ip_check_mc_rcu(in_dev, iph->daddr, iph->saddr, + iph->protocol); + if (!ours) + return; + } + sk = __udp4_lib_mcast_demux_lookup(net, uh->dest, iph->daddr, uh->source, iph->saddr, dif); } else if (skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ipv4-fix-broadcast-packets-reception.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