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net: vrf: Add support for sends to local broadcast address
authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 03:37:37 +0000 (19:37 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 02:51:03 +0000 (21:51 -0500)
commit83da20777ffb40f1cd82a9636be2e077daadc20f
tree39cfbe673f5af3396ae5794f2463d6c3475137f5
parent287cbf416d0f72b9cb6bb467f1d55dfd8f8f99e6
net: vrf: Add support for sends to local broadcast address

Sukumar reported that sends to the local broadcast address
(255.255.255.255) are broken. Check for the address in vrf driver
and do not redirect to the VRF device - similar to multicast
packets.

With this change sockets can use SO_BINDTODEVICE to specify an
egress interface and receive responses. Note: the egress interface
can not be a VRF device but needs to be the enslaved device.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198521

Reported-by: Sukumar Gopalakrishnan <sukumarg1973@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/vrf.c