Commit 02233e0c authored by Linus Lüssing's avatar Linus Lüssing Committed by Antonio Quartulli

batman-adv: Do not add multicast MAC addresses to translation table

The current translation table mechanism is not suitable for multicast
addresses and we are currently flooding such frames anyway.

Therefore this patch prevents multicast MAC addresses being added to the
translation table.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Acked-by: default avatarAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
parent 56917443
...@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ static int batadv_interface_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, ...@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ static int batadv_interface_tx(struct sk_buff *skb,
goto dropped; goto dropped;
/* Register the client MAC in the transtable */ /* Register the client MAC in the transtable */
batadv_tt_local_add(soft_iface, ethhdr->h_source, skb->skb_iif); if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(ethhdr->h_source))
batadv_tt_local_add(soft_iface, ethhdr->h_source, skb->skb_iif);
/* don't accept stp packets. STP does not help in meshes. /* don't accept stp packets. STP does not help in meshes.
* better use the bridge loop avoidance ... * better use the bridge loop avoidance ...
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