[048/146] bridge: fix forwarding of IPv6

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jun 01 2011 - 04:10:45 EST


2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit cb68552858c64db302771469b1202ea09e696329 ]

The commit 6b1e960fdbd75dcd9bcc3ba5ff8898ff1ad30b6e
bridge: Reset IPCB when entering IP stack on NF_FORWARD
broke forwarding of IPV6 packets in bridge because it would
call bp_parse_ip_options with an IPV6 packet.

Reported-by: Noah Meyerhans <noahm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
net/bridge/br_netfilter.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ static unsigned int br_nf_forward_ip(uns
nf_bridge->mask |= BRNF_PKT_TYPE;
}

- if (br_parse_ip_options(skb))
+ if (pf == PF_INET && br_parse_ip_options(skb))
return NF_DROP;

/* The physdev module checks on this */


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