netdev - Re: unintended ipv4 broadcast policy change

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Message-Id: <20110624.172832.2148913323950089821.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:28:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unintended ipv4 broadcast policy change

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:27:24 +0800

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:54:06PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> They must be because this is capturing ETH_P_ALL with type SOCK_PACKET
>> which means receive all packets unconditionally.
> 
> sock_queue_rcv_skb calls sk_filter, strange but true :)

Aha, that explains everything :)
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