Commit 39f6eb19 authored Oct 05, 2014 by Simon Vincent Committed by Marcel Holtmann Oct 25, 2014

ieee802154: 6lowpan: Drop PACKET_OTHERHOST skbs in 6lowpan



There is no point processing pkts which are PACKET_OTHERHOST
in 6lowpan as they are discarded as soon as they reach the
ipv6 layer. Therefore we should drop them in the 6lowpan layer.

Signed-off-by: Simon Vincent <simon.vincent@xsilon.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

parent ee4c148e

net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -515,6 +515,9 @@ static int lowpan_rcv(struct sk_buff skb, struct net_device dev,
		if (!netif_running(dev))
		goto drop_skb;

		if (skb->pkt_type == PACKET_OTHERHOST)
		goto drop_skb;

		if (dev->type != ARPHRD_IEEE802154)
		goto drop_skb;

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