netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next] net: fix address check in rtnl_fdb

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Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:17:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevic@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dlstevens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next] net: fix address check in rtnl_fdb_del

From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:05:23 -0400

> Commit 6681712d67eef14c4ce793561c3231659153a320
> 	vxlan: generalize forwarding tables
> 
> relaxed the address checks in rtnl_fdb_del() to use is_zero_ether_addr().
> This allows users to add multicast addresses using the fdb API.  However,
> the check in rtnl_fdb_del() still uses a more strict
> is_valid_ether_addr() which rejects multicast addresses.  Thus it
> is possible to add an fdb that can not be later removed.
> Relax the check in rtnl_fdb_del() as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>

Applied.
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