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bridge: don't route packets while learning 

While in the STP learning state, don't route packets; wait until
forwarding delay has expired. The purpose of the forwarding delay
is to detect loops in the network, and if a brouter started up
and started forwarding, it could cause a flood.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Stephen Hemminger 2007-03-21 13:42:06 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 6229e362dd
commit 467aea0ddf
1 changed files with 10 additions and 7 deletions
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net/bridge/br_input.c
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@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ struct sk_buff *br_handle_frame(struct net_bridge_port *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
const unsigned char *dest = eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest;
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(eth_hdr(skb)->h_source))
goto err;
goto drop;
if (unlikely(is_link_local(dest))) {
skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
@ -138,22 +138,25 @@ struct sk_buff *br_handle_frame(struct net_bridge_port *p, struct sk_buff *skb)
NULL, br_handle_local_finish) == 0) ? skb : NULL;
}
if (p->state == BR_STATE_FORWARDING || p->state == BR_STATE_LEARNING) {
switch (p->state) {
case BR_STATE_FORWARDING:
if (br_should_route_hook) {
if (br_should_route_hook(&skb))
return skb;
dest = eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest;
}
/* fall through */
case BR_STATE_LEARNING:
if (!compare_ether_addr(p->br->dev->dev_addr, dest))
skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
NF_HOOK(PF_BRIDGE, NF_BR_PRE_ROUTING, skb, skb->dev, NULL,
br_handle_frame_finish);
return NULL;
break;
default:
drop:
kfree_skb(skb);
}
err:
kfree_skb(skb);
return NULL;
}