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authorYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>2008-06-19 16:33:57 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-06-19 16:33:57 -0700
commitf630e43a215a3129d0c1173cae0bce6ea4855cf7 (patch)
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parentaea7427f70cce5fa8f99ce447b213e9e3b49f24c (diff)
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ipv6: Drop packets for loopback address from outside of the box.
[ Based upon original report and patch by Karsten Keil. Karsten has verified that this fixes the TAHI test case "ICMPv6 test v6LC.5.1.2 Part F". -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_input.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
index 4e5c861..17eb48b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ int ipv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt
if (hdr->version != 6)
goto err;
+ /*
+ * RFC4291 2.5.3
+ * A packet received on an interface with a destination address
+ * of loopback must be dropped.
+ */
+ if (!(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) &&
+ ipv6_addr_loopback(&hdr->daddr))
+ goto err;
+
skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + sizeof(*hdr);
IP6CB(skb)->nhoff = offsetof(struct ipv6hdr, nexthdr);
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