netdev - Re: [PATCH] RAW6: Do not allow set IPV6

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Message-Id: <200804241826.52507.rdenis@simphalempin.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:26:52 +0300
From:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@...phalempin.com>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki /
	 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, ellre923@...il.com, wangchen@...fujitsu.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RAW6: Do not allow set IPV6_CHECKSUM for ICMPv6 socket

Le Thursday 24 April 2008 15:19:53 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明, vous avez écrit :
> RFC3542 discusses about IPPROTO_IPV6 level IPV6_CHECKSUM socket option
> only. IPPROTO_RAW level IPV6_CHECKSUM socket option is undocumented Linux
> extension.  So, we are free to choose allowing setting that option on
> ICMPv6 socket as we have been doing.

I wonder why RFC3542 forbids the contentious case. Is it a security 
consideration, that userland should not be allowed to create bogus ICMPv6 
packets (IPV6_CHECKSUM can be set after dropping root after opening a raw 
socket, right?), or is it just some random IETF folklore ??

I'd note that my ndisc6 package does call setsockopt(SOL_IPV6, 
ICMPV6_CHECKSUM). Fortunately, it does not check for error values, so I don't 
really care if this is changed.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
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