Made kernel accept IPv6 routes with IPv4-mapped address as next-hop. It is possible to configure IP interfaces with IPv4-mapped addresses, and one can add IPv6 routes for IPv4-mapped destinations/prefixes, yet prior to this fix the kernel returned an EINVAL when attempting to add an IPv6 route with an IPv4-mapped address as a nexthop/gateway.
RFC 4798 (a proposed standard RFC) uses IPv4-mapped addresses as nexthops, thus in order to support that type of address configuration the kernel needs to allow IPv4-mapped addresses as nexthops. Signed-off-by: Erik Nordmark <nordm...@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Gilligan <gilli...@arista.com> --- v2 honoring minimum 1000 ft vertical separation between Thunderbird and patches (fixed whitespace issues) net/ipv6/route.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 1b57e11..86bdb02 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -1995,8 +1995,11 @@ static struct rt6_info *ip6_route_info_create(struct fib6_config *cfg) It is very good, but in some (rare!) circumstances (SIT, PtP, NBMA NOARP links) it is handy to allow some exceptions. --ANK + We allow IPv4-mapped nexthops to support RFC4798-type + addressing */ - if (!(gwa_type & IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST)) + if (!(gwa_type & (IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST | + IPV6_ADDR_MAPPED))) goto out; if (cfg->fc_table) { -- 1.8.1.4