netdev - [PATCH net-next] arp: Ignore packets with an all zero sender mac address

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Date:   Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:37:01 +0200
From:   Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net
Subject: [PATCH net-next] arp: Ignore packets with an all zero sender mac address

Some applications/devices seem to forget their MAC address when
performing some kind of a failover which triggers (something that
looks like) a gratuities arp.

The ARP packet looks something like this:

  Address Resolution Protocol (reply)
      Hardware type: Ethernet (1)
      Protocol type: IPv4 (0x0800)
      Hardware size: 6
      Protocol size: 4
      Opcode: reply (2)
      Sender MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
      Sender IP address: 10.0.0.1
      Target MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
      Target IP address: 255.255.255.255

This will result in existing arp entries being overwritten with an all
zero mac address. Until the arp entry times out this host can no
longer initiate a connection to this device.

Checking for and ignoring invalid mac addresses will solve this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@...hat.com>
---
 net/ipv4/arp.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
index a8d7c5a9fb05..e60c88b203e9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
@@ -750,6 +750,16 @@ static int arp_process(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	case ARPHRD_IEEE1394:
 		break;
 #endif
+	case ARPHRD_ETHER:
+	case ARPHRD_FDDI:
+	case ARPHRD_IEEE802:
+		/*
+		 * Check for bad sender hardware addresses. An all zero MAC
+		 * address is not valid for Ethernet, FDDI or IEEE802.
+		 */
+		if (is_zero_ether_addr(sha))
+			goto out_free_skb;
+		break;
 	default:
 		tha = arp_ptr;
 		arp_ptr += dev->addr_len;
-- 
2.13.6