Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:27:47 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | [ 164/171 ] ipv6: dont accept multicast traffic with scope 0 |
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3.6.11.2 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
[ Upstream commit 20314092c1b41894d8c181bf9aa6f022be2416aa ]
v2: a) moved before multicast source address check b) changed comment to netdev style
Cc: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> --- net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c index b196852..db70b88 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c @@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ int ipv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt ipv6_addr_loopback(&hdr->daddr)) goto err; + /* RFC4291 2.7 + * Nodes must not originate a packet to a multicast address whose scope + * field contains the reserved value 0; if such a packet is received, it + * must be silently dropped. + */ + if (ipv6_addr_is_multicast(&hdr->daddr) && + IPV6_ADDR_MC_SCOPE(&hdr->daddr) == 0) + goto err; + /* * RFC4291 2.7 * Multicast addresses must not be used as source addresses in IPv6 -- 1.7.10.4
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