batman-adv: make DAT drop ARP requests targeting local clients
authorAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Thu, 9 May 2013 07:35:45 +0000 (09:35 +0200)
committerAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Thu, 9 May 2013 10:39:45 +0000 (12:39 +0200)
In the outgoing ARP request snooping routine in DAT, ARP
Request sent by local clients which are supposed to be
replied by other local clients can be silently dropped.

The destination host will reply by itself through the LAN
and therefore there is no need to involve DAT.

Reported-by: Carlos Quijano <carlos@crqgestion.es>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Tested-by: Carlos Quijano <carlos@crqgestion.es>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c

index 8e15d966d9b0a9f30e1010c242c440e206f73ea2..239992021b1d635382dfcec141723696d7cbf564 100644 (file)
@@ -837,6 +837,19 @@ bool batadv_dat_snoop_outgoing_arp_request(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
 
        dat_entry = batadv_dat_entry_hash_find(bat_priv, ip_dst);
        if (dat_entry) {
+               /* If the ARP request is destined for a local client the local
+                * client will answer itself. DAT would only generate a
+                * duplicate packet.
+                *
+                * Moreover, if the soft-interface is enslaved into a bridge, an
+                * additional DAT answer may trigger kernel warnings about
+                * a packet coming from the wrong port.
+                */
+               if (batadv_is_my_client(bat_priv, dat_entry->mac_addr)) {
+                       ret = true;
+                       goto out;
+               }
+
                skb_new = arp_create(ARPOP_REPLY, ETH_P_ARP, ip_src,
                                     bat_priv->soft_iface, ip_dst, hw_src,
                                     dat_entry->mac_addr, hw_src);