[Bridge] [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET_HOST

Maxime Bizon mbizon at freebox.fr
Mon Jun 23 14:43:37 UTC 2014


The bridge code only set PACKET_HOST on packets sent to the bridge mac
address, packets sent to other local mac addresses are sent to upper
layers, but ignored because they are marked as PACKET_OTHERHOST.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr>
---
 net/bridge/br_input.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_input.c b/net/bridge/br_input.c
index 366c436..b9cc8554 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_input.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_input.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ int br_handle_frame_finish(struct sk_buff *skb)
 			dst->is_local) {
 		skb2 = skb;
 		/* Do not forward the packet since it's local. */
+		skb2->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
 		skb = NULL;
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.9.5



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