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| author | David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> | 2007-05-23 00:55:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-05-23 00:55:49 +0200 |
| commit | a36aa221e62ffce68819f97844494c2d5f86d011 (patch) | |
| tree | e997eb1a75f63b09f72d3db91530ce02614a535e | |
| parent | bba669f7618ba72c6b17faed7c6ca6c6bec8cb72 (diff) | |
[IPV6]: Send ICMPv6 error on scope violations.
When an IPv6 router is forwarding a packet with a link-local scope source
address off-link, RFC 4007 requires it to send an ICMPv6 destination
unreachable with code 2 ("not neighbor"), but Linux doesn't. Fix below.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c index 5bf70b1442ea..638dc8c48ef6 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -391,10 +391,17 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb) */ if (xrlim_allow(dst, 1*HZ)) ndisc_send_redirect(skb, n, target); - } else if (ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->saddr)&(IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST|IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK - |IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) { + } else { + int addrtype = ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->saddr); + /* This check is security critical. */ - goto error; + if (addrtype & (IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST|IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK)) + goto error; + if (addrtype & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) { + icmpv6_send(skb, ICMPV6_DEST_UNREACH, + ICMPV6_NOT_NEIGHBOUR, 0, skb->dev); + goto error; + } } if (skb->len > dst_mtu(dst)) { |