Re: [Bridge] Bug#625914: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: bridging is not interacting well with multicast in 2.6.38-4

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:42:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

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This is pretty weird.  Debian version 2.6.38-3 has a few bridging
changes from stable 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.38.4, but they don't look like they
would cause this.

I have apparently filed the bug against the wrong version of Debian's
kernel.  2.6.38-3 is not affected, and works as expected.  The change
was introduced in -4.  That may have been clear from the report itself,
but the report was filed against -3.  I've fixed that in the BTS.

I gathered that, and then made the same mistake in writing the above!
The version with the regression, 2.6.38-4, includes the changes from
stable 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.38.4

With a little help from git bisect, I've tracked this regression down to
the following commit to the stable-2.6.38.y tree:

commit 5f1c356a3fadc0c19922d660da723b79bcc9aad7
Author: Herbert Xu [off-list ref]
Date:   Fri Mar 18 05:27:28 2011 +0000

    bridge: Reset IPCB when entering IP stack on NF_FORWARD
    
    [ Upstream commit 6b1e960fdbd75dcd9bcc3ba5ff8898ff1ad30b6e ]
    
    Whenever we enter the IP stack proper from bridge netfilter we
    need to ensure that the skb is in a form the IP stack expects
    it to be in.
    
    The entry point on NF_FORWARD did not meet the requirements of
    the IP stack, therefore leading to potential crashes/panics.
    
    This patch fixes the problem.
    
    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu [off-list ref]
    Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref]

The diff is

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
index 4b5b66d..49d50ea 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c

@@ -741,6 +741,9 @@ static unsigned int br_nf_forward_ip(unsigned int

hook, struct sk_buff *skb,
                nf_bridge->mask |= BRNF_PKT_TYPE;
        }
 
+       if (br_parse_ip_options(skb))
+               return NF_DROP;
+
        /* The physdev module checks on this */
        nf_bridge->mask |= BRNF_BRIDGED;
        nf_bridge->physoutdev = skb->dev;

If I revert this change, network connectivity functions as expected for
the VMs on this host.

I don't know enough about this change or the problem it was supposed to
solve to be able to guess about what's going wrong.

noah