netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND] ipv6: add anti-spoofing checks for 6to4 and 6rd

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:55:08 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] ipv6: add anti-spoofing checks for 6to4 and 6rd

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:59:30PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:
> I need to do more research.  I am still not convinced
> to have such destination check here because the standard
> seems silent about it, and we have several basic checks
> in standard input path and tunnel search.

Thanks, looking forward to your conclusion.

> Anyway, try_6rd() can do check for prefix as well
> but we are doing slightly different thing.
> So I think we can introduce new __check_6rd() to
> return non-6rd/6to4 addresses.
> 
> bool __check_6rd(struct ip_tunnel *tunnel,
> 		 const struct in6_addr *v6dst,
> 		 __be32 *v4dst);
> 
> If prefix matches, fill *v4dst and return true.
> Otherwise, return false.
> 
> __be32 __try_6rd()
> {
> 	__be32 dst = 0;
> 	__check_6rd(tunnel, v6dst, &dst);
> 	return dst;
> }

I'll update the patch and send it over for review, thanks.

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