Additional dropping of unicast packets received from another backbone gw of the same backbone network before being forwarded to the same backbone again is necessary. It was observed in a test setup that in rare cases these frames lead to looping unicast traffic backbone->mesh->backbone.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Pape apape@phoenixcontact.com --- net/batman-adv/routing.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/routing.c b/net/batman-adv/routing.c index 4dd646a..606fd22 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/routing.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/routing.c @@ -854,9 +854,11 @@ int batadv_recv_unicast_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, int check, hdr_size = sizeof(*unicast_packet); enum batadv_subtype subtype; bool is4addr; + struct ethhdr *ethhdr;

unicast_packet = (struct batadv_unicast_packet *)skb->data; unicast_4addr_packet = (struct batadv_unicast_4addr_packet *)skb->data; + ethhdr = eth_hdr(skb);

is4addr = unicast_packet->packet_type == BATADV_UNICAST_4ADDR; /* the caller function should have already pulled 2 bytes */ @@ -896,6 +898,19 @@ int batadv_recv_unicast_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, } }

+ /* If this is a unicast packet from another backgone gw, + * drop it. + */ + orig_addr = ethhdr->h_source; + orig_node = batadv_orig_hash_find(bat_priv, orig_addr); + if (batadv_bla_is_backbone_gw(skb, orig_node, hdr_size)) { + batadv_dbg(BATADV_DBG_BLA, bat_priv, + "Dropped unicast pkt received from another backbone gw %pM.\n", + orig_addr); + + return NET_RX_DROP; + } + if (batadv_dat_snoop_incoming_arp_request(bat_priv, skb, hdr_size)) goto rx_success; -- 1.7.0.4

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