@@ -498,19 +498,21 @@ static int ipvlan_process_outbound(struct sk_buff *skb)
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);
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@google.com> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> --- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)