From: Guillaume Nault <gnault@xxxxxxxxxx> We don't want to disconnect a session because of a stray PADT arriving while the interface is in promiscuous mode. Furthermore, multicast and broadcast packets make no sense here, so only PACKET_HOST is accepted. Reported-by: David Balažic <xerces9@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c index fa8f7c40a384..804c52c35f07 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c @@ -494,6 +494,9 @@ static int pppoe_disc_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, if (!skb) goto out; + if (skb->pkt_type != PACKET_HOST) + goto abort; + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct pppoe_hdr))) goto abort; -- 2.25.1