[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-common] network: disable unicast flooding on tap|veth|fwln ports

[Alexandre Derumier]

Currently, if bridge receive an unknown dest mac (network bug/attack/..),
we are flooding packets to all bridge ports.

This can waste cpu time, even more with firewall enabled.
Also, if firewall is used with reject action, the src mac of RST
packet is the original unknown dest mac.
(This can block the server at Hetzner for example)

So, we can disable unicast_flood on tap|veth|fwln port interface.
bridge will learn mac address of the vm|ct, when it send traffic
or when It'll reply to arp requests coming from outside.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Derumier <aderumier at odiso.com>
---
 src/PVE/Network.pm | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/PVE/Network.pm b/src/PVE/Network.pm
index 15838a0..119340f 100644
--- a/src/PVE/Network.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/Network.pm
@@ -207,6 +207,12 @@ sub disable_ipv6 {
     close($fh);
 }
 
+my $bridge_disable_interface_flooding = sub {
+    my ($iface) = @_;
+
+    PVE::ProcFSTools::write_proc_entry("/sys/class/net/$iface/brport/unicast_flood", "0");
+};
+
 my $bridge_add_interface = sub {
     my ($bridge, $iface, $tag, $trunks) = @_;
 
@@ -334,6 +340,7 @@ my $create_firewall_bridge_linux = sub {
     veth_create($vethfw, $vethfwpeer, $bridge);
 
     &$bridge_add_interface($fwbr, $vethfw);
+    &$bridge_disable_interface_flooding($vethfw);
     &$bridge_add_interface($bridge, $vethfwpeer, $tag, $trunks);
 
     &$bridge_add_interface($fwbr, $iface);
@@ -359,6 +366,7 @@ my $create_firewall_bridge_ovs = sub {
     PVE::Tools::run_command(['/sbin/ip', 'link', 'set', $ovsintport, 'mtu', $bridgemtu]);
 
     &$bridge_add_interface($fwbr, $ovsintport);
+    &$bridge_disable_interface_flooding($ovsintport);
 };
 
 my $cleanup_firewall_bridge = sub {
@@ -406,6 +414,7 @@ sub tap_plug {
 	} else {
 	    &$bridge_add_interface($bridge, $iface, $tag, $trunks);
 	}
+	&$bridge_disable_interface_flooding($iface);
 
     } else {
 	&$cleanup_firewall_bridge($iface); # remove stale devices
-- 
2.30.2