netdev - [PATCH] ipv6: Fix for adding multicast route for loopback device automatically.

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Message-ID: <4EDF1481.1080106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:23:45 +0800
From:	Li Wei <lw@...fujitsu.com>
To:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: Fix for adding multicast route for loopback device
 automatically.

There is no obvious reason to add a default multicast route for loopback
devices, otherwise there would be a route entry whose dst.error set to
-ENETUNREACH that would blocking all multicast packets.

Signed-off-by: Li Wei <lw@...fujitsu.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index cf88df8..36806de 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -1805,7 +1805,8 @@ static struct inet6_dev *addrconf_add_dev(struct net_device *dev)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
 
 	/* Add default multicast route */
-	addrconf_add_mroute(dev);
+	if (!(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK))
+		addrconf_add_mroute(dev);
 
 	/* Add link local route */
 	addrconf_add_lroute(dev);
-- 
1.7.3.2


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