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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c26
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
index c5be4ebd8437..84121aab7ff1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
@@ -1011,6 +1011,29 @@ static int ibmveth_send(struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter,
return 0;
}
+static int ibmveth_is_packet_unsupported(struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct net_device *netdev)
+{
+ struct ethhdr *ether_header;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ ether_header = eth_hdr(skb);
+
+ if (ether_addr_equal(ether_header->h_dest, netdev->dev_addr)) {
+ netdev_dbg(netdev, "veth doesn't support loopback packets, dropping packet.\n");
+ netdev->stats.tx_dropped++;
+ ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+
+ if (!ether_addr_equal(ether_header->h_source, netdev->dev_addr)) {
+ netdev_dbg(netdev, "source packet MAC address does not match veth device's, dropping packet.\n");
+ netdev->stats.tx_dropped++;
+ ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
static netdev_tx_t ibmveth_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct net_device *netdev)
{
@@ -1022,6 +1045,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t ibmveth_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
dma_addr_t dma_addr;
unsigned long mss = 0;
+ if (ibmveth_is_packet_unsupported(skb, netdev))
+ goto out;
+
/* veth doesn't handle frag_list, so linearize the skb.
* When GRO is enabled SKB's can have frag_list.
*/