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Commit 36cbb245 authored by Rick Jones's avatar Rick Jones Committed by David S. Miller
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udp: Increment UDP_MIB_IGNOREDMULTI for arriving unmatched multicasts



As NIC multicast filtering isn't perfect, and some platforms are
quite content to spew broadcasts, we should not trigger an event
for skb:kfree_skb when we do not have a match for such an incoming
datagram.  We do though want to avoid sweeping the matter under the
rug entirely, so increment a suitable statistic.

This incorporates feedback from David L. Stevens, Karl Neiss and Eric
Dumazet.

V3 - use bool per David Miller

Signed-off-by: default avatarRick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f46ad73a
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