Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 3 authors, 2013-06-25
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[PATCH net-next v5 5/6] rtnetlink: allow using zero MAC address in rtnl_fdb_{add,del}

From: Mike Rapoport <hidden>
Date: 2013-06-25 13:02:28
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

This is required for multiple default destinations management in VXLAN

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <redacted>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 9007533..3de7408 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -2109,10 +2109,6 @@ static int rtnl_fdb_add(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	}
 
 	addr = nla_data(tb[NDA_LLADDR]);
-	if (is_zero_ether_addr(addr)) {
-		pr_info("PF_BRIDGE: RTM_NEWNEIGH with invalid ether address\n");
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
 
 	err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
@@ -2210,10 +2206,6 @@ static int rtnl_fdb_del(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	}
 
 	addr = nla_data(tb[NDA_LLADDR]);
-	if (is_zero_ether_addr(addr)) {
-		pr_info("PF_BRIDGE: RTM_DELNEIGH with invalid ether address\n");
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
 
 	err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-- 
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