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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