This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv4: fix broadcast packets reception
to the 3.14-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-3.14 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 22:36:37 PDT 2016
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:19:38 +0100
Subject: ipv4: fix broadcast packets reception
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1329
Lines: 43
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
@@ -1939,10 +1939,14 @@ 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-3.14/ipv4-fix-broadcast-packets-reception.patch
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