netdev - Re: IPV6 loopback bound socket succeeds connecting to remote host

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Date:	Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:43:50 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shanwei@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	albertpretorius@...oo.co.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, pekkas@...core.fi, jmorris@...ei.org
Subject: Re: IPV6 loopback bound socket succeeds connecting to remote host

From: Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:31:28 +0800

> David Miller wrote, at 12/17/2010 04:18 AM:
>> Your approach will only modify socket based route handling, it will
>> not handle the ipv6 forwarding case which as per the quoted RFC
>> sections must be handled too.
> 
> For the ipv6 forwarding case, we have done the check in ip6_forward().
> 
>  493                 int addrtype = ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->saddr);
>  494 
>  495                 /* This check is security critical. */
>  496                 if (addrtype == IPV6_ADDR_ANY ||
>  497                     addrtype & (IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST | IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))
>  498                         goto error;

Indeed, thanks for pointing this out.
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