[IPV6]: Send ICMPv6 error on scope violations.
When an IPv6 router is forwarding a packet with a link-local scope source
address off-link, RFC 4007 requires it to send an ICMPv6 destination
unreachable with code 2 ("not neighbor"), but Linux doesn't. Fix below.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index f508171..4704b5f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -463,10 +463,17 @@
*/
if (xrlim_allow(dst, 1*HZ))
ndisc_send_redirect(skb, n, target);
- } else if (ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->saddr)&(IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST|IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK
- |IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) {
+ } else {
+ int addrtype = ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->saddr);
+
/* This check is security critical. */
- goto error;
+ if (addrtype & (IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST|IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))
+ goto error;
+ if (addrtype & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) {
+ icmpv6_send(skb, ICMPV6_DEST_UNREACH,
+ ICMPV6_NOT_NEIGHBOUR, 0, skb->dev);
+ goto error;
+ }
}
if (skb->len > dst_mtu(dst)) {