kern/109815: wrong interface identifier at pfil_hooks for vlans + if_bridge

Andrew Thompson thompsa at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 7 21:02:56 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:22:16PM +0300, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> Ok, since no one want to provide an explanation I'll to do it myself.
...
> I suggest to fix this problem in the other way, by checking if the 
> physical interface
> is the dst interface by MAC. Eq if we got packet from Ci, it will be 
> market as received
> from Ci, not from Cj. Yes it will add double checking for this interface 
> it is not the
> dst with some probability, but will optimize the case the dst is the 
> current one cause
> we will not check the list. This will keep the old behaviour eq case 1 
> and will do the
> same trick for cases like VLANs. Here my variant of the patch:

I think this is probably the best way to do it. I have only been loosely
following this thread due to other stuff going on.

> 
> +        /* Give a chance for ifp at first priority. This will help in case 
> we
> +         * the packet comes through the interface with VLAN's and the same
> +         * MACs on several interfaces in a bridge. Also will save some 
> circles
> +         * in case dst interface is the physical input interface (eq ifp).
> +         */
> +        if (ifp->if_type == IFT_GIF
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	       is this check right?

> +            && (memcmp(IF_LLADDR(bif2->bif_ifp), eh->ether_dhost,
> +                ETHER_ADDR_LEN) == 0
> +#ifdef DEV_CARP
> +                || (bif2->bif_ifp->if_carp 
> +                    && carp_forus(bif2->bif_ifp->if_carp, eh->ether_dhost))
> +#endif
> +            )) {
> +                if (bif->bif_flags & IFBIF_LEARNING)
> +                        (void) bridge_rtupdate(sc,
> +                            eh->ether_shost, bif, 0, IFBAF_DYNAMIC);
> +                m->m_pkthdr.rcvif = ifp;
> +                BRIDGE_UNLOCK(sc);
> +                return (m);
> +        }

I will be keen to see your final patch.


Andrew


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