Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net: bridge: drop packets with a local source

[Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>]

On 19/09/2024 11:58, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Currently, there is only a warning if a packet enters the bridge
> that has the bridge's or one port's MAC address as source.
> 
> Clearly this indicates a network loop (or even spoofing) so we
> generally do not want to process the packet. Therefore, move the check
> already done for 802.1x scenarios up and do it unconditionally.
> 
> For example, a common scenario we see in the field:
> In a accidental network loop scenario, if an IGMP join
> loops back to us, it would cause mdb entries to stay indefinitely
> even if there's no actual join from the outside. Therefore
> this change can effectively prevent multicast storms, at least
> for simple loops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Martitz <tmartitz-oss@avm.de>
> ---
>   net/bridge/br_fdb.c   |  4 +---
>   net/bridge/br_input.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
>   2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 

Absolutely not, I'm sorry but we're not all going to take a performance hit
of an additional lookup because you want to filter src address. You can filter
it in many ways that won't affect others and don't require kernel changes
(ebpf, netfilter etc). To a lesser extent there is also the issue where we might
break some (admittedly weird) setup.

Cheers,
  Nik