3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>
[ Upstream commit 20314092c1b41894d8c181bf9aa6f022be2416aa ]
v2:
a) moved before multicast source address check
b) changed comment to netdev style
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshf...@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Erik Hugne <erik.hu...@ericsson.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshf...@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshf...@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ int ipv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
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
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