From: Mahesh Bandewar <mah...@bandewar.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 17:30:16 -0800
> From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahe...@google.com>
>
> In an IPvlan setup when master is set in loopback mode e.g.
>
> ethtool -K eth0 set loopback on
>
> where eth0 is master device for IPvlan setup.
>
> The failure is caused by the faulty logic that determines if the
> packet is from TX-path vs. RX-path by just looking at the mac-
> addresses on the packet while processing multicast packets.
>
> In the loopback-mode where this crash was happening, the packets
> that are sent out are reflected by the NIC and are processed on
> the RX path, but mac-address check tricks into thinking this
> packet is from TX path and falsely uses dev_forward_skb() to pass
> packets to the slave (virtual) devices.
>
> This patch records the path while queueing packets and eliminates
> logic of looking at mac-addresses for the same decision.
...
> Fixes: ba35f8588f47 ("ipvlan: Defer multicast / broadcast processing to a
> work-queue")
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <mahe...@google.com>
This looks a lot better, applied, thanks.
