netdev - [patch net v2 3/4] mlxsw: spectrum: Treat IPv6 unregistered multicast as broadcast

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:12:10 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, idosch@...lanox.com, arkadis@...lanox.com,
        talb@...lanox.com, dsahern@...il.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: [patch net v2 3/4] mlxsw: spectrum: Treat IPv6 unregistered multicast as broadcast

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>

When multicast snooping is enabled, the Linux bridge resorts to flooding
unregistered multicast packets to all ports only in case it did not
detect a querier in the network.

The above condition is not reflected to underlying drivers, which is
especially problematic in IPv6 environments, as multicast snooping is
enabled by default and since neighbour solicitation packets might be
treated as unregistered multicast packets in case there is no
corresponding MDB entry.

Until the Linux bridge reflects its querier state to underlying drivers,
simply treat unregistered multicast packets as broadcast and allow them
to reach their destination.

Fixes: 9df552ef3e21 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Improve IPv6 unregistered multicast flooding")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_fid.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_fid.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_fid.c
index bbd238e50f05..54262af4e98f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_fid.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_fid.c
@@ -112,11 +112,11 @@ static const int mlxsw_sp_sfgc_bc_packet_types[MLXSW_REG_SFGC_TYPE_MAX] = {
 	[MLXSW_REG_SFGC_TYPE_UNREGISTERED_MULTICAST_NON_IP]	= 1,
 	[MLXSW_REG_SFGC_TYPE_IPV4_LINK_LOCAL]			= 1,
 	[MLXSW_REG_SFGC_TYPE_IPV6_ALL_HOST]			= 1,
+	[MLXSW_REG_SFGC_TYPE_UNREGISTERED_MULTICAST_IPV6]	= 1,
 };
 
 static const int mlxsw_sp_sfgc_mc_packet_types[MLXSW_REG_SFGC_TYPE_MAX] = {
 	[MLXSW_REG_SFGC_TYPE_UNREGISTERED_MULTICAST_IPV4]	= 1,
-	[MLXSW_REG_SFGC_TYPE_UNREGISTERED_MULTICAST_IPV6]	= 1,
 };
 
 static const int *mlxsw_sp_packet_type_sfgc_types[] = {
-- 
2.14.3