Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965713Ab3FULyX (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:54:23 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:64554 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965513Ab3FULyV (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:54:21 -0400 From: =?UTF-8?q?Linus=20L=C3=BCssing?= To: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?q?Linus=20L=C3=BCssing?= Subject: [PATCH] bridge: prevent flooding IPv6 packets that do not have a listener Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:53:58 +0200 Message-Id: <1371815638-5618-1-git-send-email-linus.luessing@web.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:mSHJ+uDUYdac4Wqhe1DLmcIdR+1PgucTUUbelXDANBDPNs6b+pd 5tGDPeR07T/oIq0qb/chEoWg344PyeddMmJ/DAfA7VE63qP8p4oFI6k8qKSDnjXnCOB+dBF 6QL4JVLWik8Yw6NOyRMpfbwjsqaZ0bsVPzw2yXzo9tFjTuTOlfhSylDvmT3kTg5w0PdUcTn kemzn78cN9rgfbk95i9FA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1530 Lines: 45 Currently if there is no listener for a certain group then IPv6 packets for that group are flooded on all ports, even though there might be no host and router interested in it on a port. With this commit they are only forwarded to ports with a multicast router. Just like commit bd4265fe36 ("bridge: Only flood unregistered groups to routers") did for IPv4, let's do the same for IPv6 with the same reasoning. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing --- net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c index 81f2389..8bdfaf5 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c @@ -1465,8 +1465,14 @@ static int br_multicast_ipv6_rcv(struct net_bridge *br, * - MLD has always Router Alert hop-by-hop option * - But we do not support jumbrograms. */ - if (ip6h->version != 6 || - ip6h->nexthdr != IPPROTO_HOPOPTS || + if (ip6h->version != 6) + return 0; + + /* Prevent flooding this packet if there is no listener present */ + if (ipv6_is_transient_multicast(&ip6h->daddr)) + BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->mrouters_only = 1; + + if (ip6h->nexthdr != IPPROTO_HOPOPTS || ip6h->payload_len == 0) return 0; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/