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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Skip loopback packets in RX handler
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 23:18:59 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200526.231859.398097568630300979.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200526122751.409917-1-alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>

From: Alexander A Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 14:27:51 +0200

> From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
> 
> Ignore loopback-originatig packets soon enough and don't try to process L2
> header where it doesn't exist. The very similar br_handle_frame() in bridge
> code performs exactly the same check.
> 
> This is an example of such ICMPv6 packet:
 ...
> Call Trace, how it happens exactly:
>  ...
>  macvlan_handle_frame+0x321/0x425 [macvlan]
>  ? macvlan_forward_source+0x110/0x110 [macvlan]
>  __netif_receive_skb_core+0x545/0xda0
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-27  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-26 12:27 [PATCH] macvlan: Skip loopback packets in RX handler Alexander A Sverdlin
2020-05-27  6:18 ` David Miller [this message]

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