[PATCH 2/2] bridge: multicast: enable snooping on general queries only

From: Linus LÃssing
Date: Sun Mar 09 2014 - 23:41:32 EST


Without this check someone could easily create a denial of service
by injecting multicast-specific queries to enable the bridge
snooping part if no real querier issuing periodic general queries
is present on the link which would result in the bridge wrongly
shutting down ports for multicast traffic as the bridge did not learn
about these listeners.

With this patch the snooping code is enabled upon receiving valid,
general queries only.

Signed-off-by: Linus LÃssing <linus.luessing@xxxxxx>
---
net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index c77f073..5dd4fec 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -1127,9 +1127,10 @@ static void br_multicast_query_received(struct net_bridge *br,
struct net_bridge_port *port,
struct bridge_mcast_querier *querier,
int saddr,
+ bool is_general_query,
unsigned long max_delay)
{
- if (saddr)
+ if (saddr && is_general_query)
br_multicast_update_querier_timer(br, querier, max_delay);
else if (timer_pending(&querier->timer))
return;
@@ -1190,7 +1191,7 @@ static int br_ip4_multicast_query(struct net_bridge *br,
}

br_multicast_query_received(br, port, &br->ip4_querier, !!iph->saddr,
- max_delay);
+ !group, max_delay);

if (!group)
goto out;
@@ -1282,7 +1283,8 @@ static int br_ip6_multicast_query(struct net_bridge *br,
}

br_multicast_query_received(br, port, &br->ip6_querier,
- !ipv6_addr_any(&ip6h->saddr), max_delay);
+ !ipv6_addr_any(&ip6h->saddr),
+ is_general_query, max_delay);

if (!group)
goto out;
--
1.7.10.4

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