netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V2] icmp: ICMPV6: pass RFC 8335 reply messages to ping

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Message-ID: <CA+FuTSfNxNj1o3QE=PL=NQ9ux27xiW7vVgjwgoWMeUb-GyBuUQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:51:27 -0400
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Andreas Roeseler <andreas.a.roeseler@...il.com>
Cc:     Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2] icmp: ICMPV6: pass RFC 8335 reply messages to ping_rcv

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:25 PM Andreas Roeseler
<andreas.a.roeseler@...il.com> wrote:
>
> The current icmp_rcv function drops all unknown ICMP types, including
> ICMP_EXT_ECHOREPLY (type 43). In order to parse Extended Echo Reply messages, we have
> to pass these packets to the ping_rcv function, which does not do any
> other filtering and passes the packet to the designated socket.
>
> Pass incoming RFC 8335 ICMP Extended Echo Reply packets to the ping_rcv
> handler instead of discarding the packet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Roeseler <andreas.a.roeseler@...il.com>

Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>

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