netdev - Re: [PATCH] [IPv6]: IPV6_MULTICAST_IF setting is ignored on link-local connect()

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Message-ID: <47825B50.2060200@hp.com>
Date:	Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:03:12 -0500
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [IPv6]: IPV6_MULTICAST_IF setting is ignored on link-local
 connect()

David Stevens wrote:
>         Yeah, that's what I get for typing in off-the-cuff code. What
> I was thinking was the fl.oif assignment instead was:
>         if (!sk->sk_bound_dev_if &&
>                 (addr_type & IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST))
>                         sk->sk_bound_dev_if = np->mcast_oif;
> 
> Which it is not, but maybe it could be, since this is a connect().

How about the simple patch below?  I just removed the ENINVAL check from 
my original patch, but it accomplishes the same thing.

> That patch looks better, but I'm wondering if we could just remove the
> requirement that sin6_scope_id be set here if it's multicast, since it
> is doing the following later in the code:
> 
>         if (!fl.oif && (addr_type&IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST))
>                 fl.oif = np->mcast_oif;
> 
> So, really, all we need to do is get through the LINKLOCAL section
> without error in the multicast case and we can remove the redundant
> multicast check there. I think that'd be simpler.

I don't think we can remove that check since it covers the non-multicast 
case.

-Brian

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
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