netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: vxlan: fix crash when interface is created with no group

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Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:22:35 +0200
From:	Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@...ellosystems.com>
To:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: vxlan: fix crash when interface is created with
 no group

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:47 PM, David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>From: David Miller
>
>>Any objections to this? I think it maintains the pre-ipv6-support
>>behavior. I know there may be some concerns about supporting
>>multiple
>>families on the same socket, but I'm not so sure the code is able to
>>support that right now anyways.
>
> I'm ok with the idea of determining the AF from the socket -- mixed
> support, if useful, can be added later. But the patch needs to then
> check and drop packets encapsulated with the wrong address family.
>
> And it still shouldn't assume !v4 means v6.
>
> [apologies for spacing; doing this from a web browser...]
> So, I think we need something like:
>
>      if (vs->family == AF_INET && skb->protocol == ntohs(ETH_P_IP)) {
>         ....
>      } else if (vs->family == AF_INET6 && skb->protocol == ntohs(ETH_P_IPV6)) {
>         ...
>      } else
>            goto drop
>

Checking skb->protocol will drop ARP requests. What about using
ip_hdr(skb)->version?

>                                                           +-DLS
>



-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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