netdev - Re: ipv6 : Don't reduce hop limit below current value

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:36:38 +0100
From:	"D. S. Ljungmark" <spider@...eit.se>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv6 : Don't reduce hop limit below current value

On tis, 2015-03-24 at 18:06 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: "D. S. Ljungmark" <spider@...eit.se>
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:36:09 +0100
> 
> > +		/*	Only set hop_limit on the interface if it is higher than
> > +		*	the current hop_limit.
> > +		 */
> 
> Comments in the networking should be of the form:
> 
> 	/* Like
> 	 * this.
> 	 */

Not sure if your complaint was about the misaligned *, or that there was
a tab char after the comment start rather than a space.

Adjusted both and re-sending.

And there was a comment about quoting the relevant IETF standard,

RFC 3756, Section 4.2.7, "Parameter Spoofing"

   1.  The attacker includes a Current Hop Limit of one or another small
       number which the attacker knows will cause legitimate packets to
       be dropped before they reach their destination.
<snip>

   As an example, one possible approach to mitigate this threat is to
   ignore very small hop limits.  The nodes could implement a
   configurable minimum hop limit, and ignore attempts to set it below
   said limit.

This patch basically treats the current interface hop limit as the
threshold to use. 

//D.S.

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