[Bridge] [PATCH net-next 04/11] rtnetlink: bridge: mcast: Relax group address validation in common code

Ido Schimmel
Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:53:42 -0000

In the upcoming VXLAN MDB implementation, the 0.0.0.0 and :: MDB entries
will act as catchall entries for unregistered IP multicast traffic in a
similar fashion to the 00:00:00:00:00:00 VXLAN FDB entry that is used to
transmit BUM traffic.

In deployments where inter-subnet multicast forwarding is used, not all
the VTEPs in a tenant domain are members in all the broadcast domains.
It is therefore advantageous to transmit BULL (broadcast, unknown
unicast and link-local multicast) and unregistered IP multicast traffic
on different tunnels. If the same tunnel was used, a VTEP only
interested in IP multicast traffic would also pull all the BULL traffic
and drop it as it is not a member in the originating broadcast domain
[1].

Prepare for this change by allowing the 0.0.0.0 group address in the
common rtnetlink MDB code and forbid it in the bridge driver. A similar
change is not needed for IPv6 because the common code only validates
that the group address is not the all-nodes address.

[1]
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-irb-mcast#section-2.6

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch at nvidia.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_mdb.c  | 6 ++++++
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c
index 76636c61db21..7305f5f8215c 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c
@@ -1246,6 +1246,12 @@ static int br_mdb_config_init(struct br_mdb_config *cfg,
struct net_device *dev,
 		}
 	}

+	if (cfg->entry->addr.proto == htons(ETH_P_IP) &&
+	    ipv4_is_zeronet(cfg->entry->addr.u.ip4)) {
+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "IPv4 entry group address 0.0.0.0 is not
allowed");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (tb[MDBA_SET_ENTRY_ATTRS])
 		return br_mdb_config_attrs_init(tb[MDBA_SET_ENTRY_ATTRS], cfg,
 						extack);
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index f347d9fa78c7..b7b1661d0d56 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -6152,8 +6152,9 @@ static int rtnl_validate_mdb_entry(const struct nlattr
*attr,
 	}

 	if (entry->addr.proto == htons(ETH_P_IP)) {
-		if (!ipv4_is_multicast(entry->addr.u.ip4)) {
-			NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "IPv4 entry group address is not
multicast");
+		if (!ipv4_is_multicast(entry->addr.u.ip4) &&
+		    !ipv4_is_zeronet(entry->addr.u.ip4)) {
+			NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "IPv4 entry group address is not multicast or
0.0.0.0");
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		if (ipv4_is_local_multicast(entry->addr.u.ip4)) {
--
2.37.3