[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "ipv4: fix broadcast packets reception" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ipv4: fix broadcast packets reception

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt18.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ea5bffa5e5e90a5d26587bf42f670dfecff5f537 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:19:38 +0100
Subject: ipv4: fix broadcast packets reception

commit ad0ea1989cc4d5905941d0a9e62c63ad6d859cef upstream.

Currently, ingress ipv4 broadcast datagrams are dropped since,
in udp_v4_early_demux(), ip_check_mc_rcu() is invoked even on
bcast packets.

This patch addresses the issue, invoking ip_check_mc_rcu()
only for mcast packets.

Fixes: 6e5403093261 ("ipv4/udp: Verify multicast group is ours in upd_v4_early_demux()")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/udp.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
index b833848..d569a84 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
@@ -1985,10 +1985,14 @@ void udp_v4_early_demux(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		if (!in_dev)
 			return;

-		ours = ip_check_mc_rcu(in_dev, iph->daddr, iph->saddr,
-				       iph->protocol);
-		if (!ours)
-			return;
+		/* we are supposed to accept bcast packets */
+		if (skb->pkt_type == PACKET_MULTICAST) {
+			ours = ip_check_mc_rcu(in_dev, iph->daddr, iph->saddr,
+					       iph->protocol);
+			if (!ours)
+				return;
+		}
+
 		sk = __udp4_lib_mcast_demux_lookup(net, uh->dest, iph->daddr,
 						   uh->source, iph->saddr, dif);
 	} else if (skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST) {
--
2.7.4