From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ad8192767c9f9cf97da57b9ffcea70fb100febef ] IPvlan in L3 mode discards outbound multicast packets but performs the check before ensuring the ether-header is set or not. This is an error that Eric found through code browsing. Fixes: 2ad7bf363841 (“ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.”) Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c @@ -499,19 +499,21 @@ static int ipvlan_process_outbound(struc struct ethhdr *ethh = eth_hdr(skb); int ret = NET_XMIT_DROP; - /* In this mode we dont care about multicast and broadcast traffic */ - if (is_multicast_ether_addr(ethh->h_dest)) { - pr_debug_ratelimited("Dropped {multi|broad}cast of type=[%x]\n", - ntohs(skb->protocol)); - kfree_skb(skb); - goto out; - } - /* The ipvlan is a pseudo-L2 device, so the packets that we receive * will have L2; which need to discarded and processed further * in the net-ns of the main-device. */ if (skb_mac_header_was_set(skb)) { + /* In this mode we dont care about + * multicast and broadcast traffic */ + if (is_multicast_ether_addr(ethh->h_dest)) { + pr_debug_ratelimited( + "Dropped {multi|broad}cast of type=[%x]\n", + ntohs(skb->protocol)); + kfree_skb(skb); + goto out; + } + skb_pull(skb, sizeof(*ethh)); skb->mac_header = (typeof(skb->mac_header))~0U; skb_reset_network_header(skb);