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Commit 85967bb4 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller
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[BRIDGE]: prevent bad forwarding table updates


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: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 81d35307
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