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authorBert Muthalaly <stijlist@google.com>2018-09-19 13:42:55 -0700
committerShentubot <shentubot@google.com>2018-09-19 13:43:58 -0700
commit2e497de2d9f6c410a214faae9962e762757b0648 (patch)
tree992c064bd360dc50f8369d76d1481e5eb58ec612 /pkg/tcpip/link/loopback
parentf0a92b6b67382a1f8da5ef2622c59afdb1c40f13 (diff)
Pass local link address to DeliverNetworkPacket
This allows a NetworkDispatcher to implement transparent bridging, assuming all implementations of LinkEndpoint.WritePacket call eth.Encode with header.EthernetFields.SrcAddr set to the passed Route.LocalLinkAddress, if it is provided. PiperOrigin-RevId: 213686651 Change-Id: I446a4ac070970202f0724ef796ff1056ae4dd72a
Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/tcpip/link/loopback')
-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/link/loopback/loopback.go6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/link/loopback/loopback.go b/pkg/tcpip/link/loopback/loopback.go
index 554ad64de..fc3f80c01 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/link/loopback/loopback.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/link/loopback/loopback.go
@@ -77,7 +77,11 @@ func (e *endpoint) WritePacket(_ *stack.Route, hdr buffer.Prependable, payload b
views[0] = hdr.View()
views = append(views, payload.Views()...)
vv := buffer.NewVectorisedView(len(views[0])+payload.Size(), views)
- e.dispatcher.DeliverNetworkPacket(e, "", protocol, vv)
+
+ // Because we're immediately turning around and writing the packet back to the
+ // rx path, we intentionally don't preserve the remote and local link
+ // addresses from the stack.Route we're passed.
+ e.dispatcher.DeliverNetworkPacket(e, "" /* remoteLinkAddr */, "" /* localLinkAddr */, protocol, vv)
return nil
}