Re: [PATCH net] bridge: Prevent insertion of FDB entry with disallowed vlan

[Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>]

On 05/30/2014 06:48 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 15:15:53 +0900
> 
>> br_handle_local_finish() is allowing us to insert an FDB entry with
>> disallowed vlan. For example, when port 1 and 2 are communicating in
>> vlan 10, and even if vlan 10 is disallowed on port 3, port 3 can
>> interfere with their communication by spoofed src mac address with
>> vlan id 10.
>>
>> Note: Even if it is judged that a frame should not be learned, it should
>> not be dropped because it is destined for not forwarding layer but higher
>> layer. See IEEE 802.1Q-2011 8.13.10.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>
> 
> In reference to Vlad's suggestion to try to reuse the logic of the
> existing br_allowed_ingress() function, I don't think that's so
> easy.
> 
> As stated already, it drops packets whilst we don't want that here.
> 
> Another difference is that it does vlan_untag(), which we also do
> not want here.
> 
> Let's just stay with this version of the fix, Vlad if you're OK with
> that can you please give your ACK?  Thanks.
> 


Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>

I need to spend a little time and figure out how to make it more re-usable.

-vlad