linux-kernel - [PATCH] bridge: prevent flooding IPv6 packets that do not have a listener

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Message-Id: <1371815638-5618-1-git-send-email-linus.luessing@web.de>
Date:	Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:53:58 +0200
From:	Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>
To:	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>
Subject: [PATCH] bridge: prevent flooding IPv6 packets that do not have a listener

Currently if there is no listener for a certain group then IPv6 packets
for that group are flooded on all ports, even though there might be no
host and router interested in it on a port.

With this commit they are only forwarded to ports with a multicast
router.

Just like commit bd4265fe36 ("bridge: Only flood unregistered groups
to routers") did for IPv4, let's do the same for IPv6 with the same
reasoning.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@....de>
---
 net/bridge/br_multicast.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index 81f2389..8bdfaf5 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -1465,8 +1465,14 @@ static int br_multicast_ipv6_rcv(struct net_bridge *br,
 	 *  - MLD has always Router Alert hop-by-hop option
 	 *  - But we do not support jumbrograms.
 	 */
-	if (ip6h->version != 6 ||
-	    ip6h->nexthdr != IPPROTO_HOPOPTS ||
+	if (ip6h->version != 6)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Prevent flooding this packet if there is no listener present */
+	if (ipv6_is_transient_multicast(&ip6h->daddr))
+		BR_INPUT_SKB_CB(skb)->mrouters_only = 1;
+
+	if (ip6h->nexthdr != IPPROTO_HOPOPTS ||
 	    ip6h->payload_len == 0)
 		return 0;
 
-- 
1.7.10.4

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