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ipvlan: egress mcast packets are not exceptional 

Currently, if IPv6 is enabled on top of an ipvlan device in l3
mode, the following warning message:

 Dropped {multi|broad}cast of type= [86dd]

is emitted every time that a RS is generated and dmseg is soon
filled with irrelevant messages. Replace pr_warn with pr_debug,
to preserve debuggability, without scaring the sysadmin.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Paolo Abeni 2018-02-28 11:43:27 +01:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 30bbb983d8
commit cccc200fca
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
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@ -498,8 +498,8 @@ static int ipvlan_process_outbound(struct sk_buff *skb)
/* In this mode we dont care about multicast and broadcast traffic */
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(ethh->h_dest)) {
pr_warn_ratelimited("Dropped {multi|broad}cast of type= [%x]\n",
ntohs(skb->protocol));
pr_debug_ratelimited("Dropped {multi|broad}cast of type=[%x]\n",
ntohs(skb->protocol));
kfree_skb(skb);
goto out;
}