netdev - Re: [PATCH next] ipvlan: add L2 check for packets arriving via virtual devices

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Date:   Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:15:23 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mahesh@...dewar.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        amit.sikka@...csson.com, maheshb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] ipvlan: add L2 check for packets arriving via
 virtual devices

From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
Date: Thu,  7 Dec 2017 15:15:43 -0800

> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
> 
> Packets that don't have dest mac as the mac of the master device should
> not be entertained by the IPvlan rx-handler. This is mostly true as the
> packet path mostly takes care of that, except when the master device is
> a virtual device. As demonstrated in the following case -
 ...
> This patch adds that missing check in the IPvlan rx-handler.
> 
> Reported-by: Amit Sikka <amit.sikka@...csson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>

Applied, but it's a shame that the data plane takes on this new MAC
compare operation.