netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: don't accept node local multicast traffic from the wire

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Date:	Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:57:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, erik.hugne@...csson.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: don't accept node local multicast traffic
 from the wire

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:13:34 +0100

> Erik Hugne's errata proposal (Errata ID: 3480) to RFC4291 has been
> verified: http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?eid=3480
> 
> We have to check for pkt_type and loopback flag because either the
> packets are allowed to travel over the loopback interface (in which case
> pkt_type is PACKET_HOST and IFF_LOOPBACK flag is set) or they travel
> over a non-loopback interface back to us (in which case PACKET_TYPE is
> PACKET_LOOPBACK and IFF_LOOPBACK flag is not set).
> 
> Cc: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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