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| author | Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> | 2011-11-08 04:41:42 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-11-08 12:37:06 -0500 |
| commit | c457338d7acd3823e765b684a62294cfda9d2f55 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f055d507f54a4223b049bacd15c09b0d5548784 /net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | |
| parent | 10953db8e1a278742ef7e64a3d1491802bcfa98b (diff) | |
| download | linux-c457338d7acd3823e765b684a62294cfda9d2f55.tar.gz | |
ipv6: drop packets when source address is multicast
RFC 4291 Section 2.7 says Multicast addresses must not be used as source addresses in IPv6 packets - drop them on input so we don't process the packet further. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Reported-and-Tested-by: Kumar Sanghvi <divinekumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ip6_input.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c index 027c7ff6f1e5..a46c64eb0a66 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c @@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ 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 + * Multicast addresses must not be used as source addresses in IPv6 + * packets or appear in any Routing header. + */ + if (ipv6_addr_is_multicast(&hdr->saddr)) + goto err; + skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + sizeof(*hdr); IP6CB(skb)->nhoff = offsetof(struct ipv6hdr, nexthdr); |