network/neighbor: skip to request neighbors with unmatching link layer address length

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/network/networkd-neighbor.c b/src/network/networkd-neighbor.c
index c1629ae3e9..aa752caff3 100644
--- a/src/network/networkd-neighbor.c
+++ b/src/network/networkd-neighbor.c
@@ -256,6 +256,16 @@ static int link_request_neighbor(Link *link, const Neighbor *neighbor) {
         assert(neighbor);
         assert(neighbor->source != NETWORK_CONFIG_SOURCE_FOREIGN);
 
+        if (neighbor->ll_addr.length != link->hw_addr.length) {
+                log_link_debug(link,
+                               "The link layer address lenght (%zu) for neighbor %s does not match with "
+                               "the hardware address length (%zu), ignoring the setting.",
+                               neighbor->ll_addr.length,
+                               IN_ADDR_TO_STRING(neighbor->family, &neighbor->in_addr),
+                               link->hw_addr.length);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
         if (neighbor_get(link, neighbor, &existing) < 0) {
                 _cleanup_(neighbor_freep) Neighbor *tmp = NULL;