[Bridge] [PATCH net] net: bridge: remove ipv6 zero address check in mcast queries

Hangbin Liu liuhangbin at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 01:33:16 UTC 2018


On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 12:07:47PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> Recently a check was added which prevents marking of routers with zero
> source address, but for IPv6 that cannot happen as the relevant RFCs
> actually forbid such packets:
> RFC 2710 (MLDv1):
> "To be valid, the Query message MUST
>  come from a link-local IPv6 Source Address, be at least 24 octets
>  long, and have a correct MLD checksum."
> 
> Same goes for RFC 3810.
> 
> And also it can be seen as a requirement in ipv6_mc_check_mld_query()
> which is used by the bridge to validate the message before processing
> it. Thus any queries with :: source address won't be processed anyway.
> So just remove the check for zero IPv6 source address from the query
> processing function.
> 
> Fixes: 5a2de63fd1a5 ("bridge: do not add port to router list when receives query with source 0.0.0.0")
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>

Opps.. Sorry for the mistake and thank you for your fix.

Regards
Hangbin

> ---
>  net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> index 41cdafbf2ebe..6bac0d6b7b94 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> @@ -1428,8 +1428,7 @@ static void br_multicast_query_received(struct net_bridge *br,
>  	 * is 0.0.0.0 should not be added to router port list.
>  	 */
>  	if ((saddr->proto == htons(ETH_P_IP) && saddr->u.ip4) ||
> -	    (saddr->proto == htons(ETH_P_IPV6) &&
> -	     !ipv6_addr_any(&saddr->u.ip6)))
> +	    saddr->proto == htons(ETH_P_IPV6))
>  		br_multicast_mark_router(br, port);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.2
> 


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