Commit cccc200f authored Feb 28, 2018 by Paolo Abeni Committed by David S. Miller Feb 28, 2018

ipvlan: egress mcast packets are not exceptional



Currently, if IPv6 is enabled on top of an ipvlan device in l3
mode, the following warning message:

 Dropped {multi|broad}cast of type= [86dd]

is emitted every time that a RS is generated and dmseg is soon
filled with irrelevant messages. Replace pr_warn with pr_debug,
to preserve debuggability, without scaring the sysadmin.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 30bbb983

drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static int ipvlan_process_outbound(struct sk_buff *skb)

		/* In this mode we dont care about multicast and broadcast traffic */
		if (is_multicast_ether_addr(ethh->h_dest)) {
		pr_warn_ratelimited("Dropped {multi\|broad}cast of type= [%x]\n",
		pr_debug_ratelimited("Dropped {multi\|broad}cast of type=[%x]\n",
		ntohs(skb->protocol));
		kfree_skb(skb);
		goto out;