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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] dev_forward_skb() should clear skb_iif
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:44:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120328004429.GA9913@kvack.org> (raw)

While investigating another bug, I found that the code on the incoming path
in __netif_receive_skb will only set skb->skb_iif if it is already 0.  When
dev_forward_skb() is used in the case of interfaces like veth, skb_iif may
already have been set.  Making dev_forward_skb() cause the packet to look
like a newly received packet would seem to the the correct behaviour here,
as otherwise the wrong incoming interface can be reported for such a packet.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 0f3eb7d..021bb25 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1597,6 +1597,7 @@ int dev_forward_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return NET_RX_DROP;
 	}
+	skb->skb_iif = 0;
 	skb_set_dev(skb, dev);
 	skb->tstamp.tv64 = 0;
 	skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
-- 
1.7.4.1


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