3.6-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 60713a0ca7fd6651b951cc1b4dbd528d1fc0281b ]
As documented in RFC4861 (Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6) 7.2.6.,
unsolicited neighbour advertisements should be sent to the all-nodes
multicast address.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static void ndisc_send_unsol_na(struct n
{
struct inet6_dev *idev;
struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa;
- struct in6_addr mcaddr;
+ struct in6_addr mcaddr = IN6ADDR_LINKLOCAL_ALLNODES_INIT;
idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
if (!idev)
@@ -543,7 +543,6 @@ static void ndisc_send_unsol_na(struct n
read_lock_bh(&idev->lock);
list_for_each_entry(ifa, &idev->addr_list, if_list) {
- addrconf_addr_solict_mult(&ifa->addr, &mcaddr);
ndisc_send_na(dev, NULL, &mcaddr, &ifa->addr,
/*router=*/ !!idev->cnf.forwarding,
/*solicited=*/ false, /*override=*/ true,
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