Patch "ipv6: stop multicast forwarding to process interface scoped addresses" has been added to the 3.8-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipv6: stop multicast forwarding to process interface scoped addresses

to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ipv6-stop-multicast-forwarding-to-process-interface-scoped-addresses.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 873d72b49df7f246b548bba2683ce84731f2e8f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 02:07:23 +0000
Subject: ipv6: stop multicast forwarding to process interface scoped addresses


From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit ddf64354af4a702ee0b85d0a285ba74c7278a460 ]

v2:
a) used struct ipv6_addr_props

v3:
a) reverted changes for ipv6_addr_props

v4:
a) do not use __ipv6_addr_needs_scope_id

Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -270,7 +270,8 @@ int ip6_mc_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	 *      IPv6 multicast router mode is now supported ;)
 	 */
 	if (dev_net(skb->dev)->ipv6.devconf_all->mc_forwarding &&
-	    !(ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->daddr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) &&
+	    !(ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->daddr) &
+	      (IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK|IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) &&
 	    likely(!(IP6CB(skb)->flags & IP6SKB_FORWARDED))) {
 		/*
 		 * Okay, we try to forward - split and duplicate


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.8/ipv6-stop-multicast-forwarding-to-process-interface-scoped-addresses.patch
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