[BRIDGE]: prevent bad forwarding table updates
authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Sun, 29 May 2005 21:15:55 +0000 (14:15 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 29 May 2005 21:15:55 +0000 (14:15 -0700)
Avoid poisoning of the bridge forwarding table by frames that have been
dropped by filtering. This prevents spoofed source addresses on hostile
side of bridge from causing packet leakage, a small but possible security
risk.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/bridge/br_input.c
net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c

Simple merge
Simple merge