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authorJuha-Matti Tapio <jmtapio@verkkotelakka.net>2008-02-28 20:55:46 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-02-28 20:55:46 -0800
commit99cd07a537bf4c7c954f31611e30064407104410 (patch)
tree4abc67b2f95b3220bfa467cb9c85156cd17e3ab7 /include/net
parent5fe47b8a65f8b4104e41dc46092dfcf942ce0758 (diff)
[IPV6]: Fix source address selection for ORCHID addresses
Skip the prefix length matching in source address selection for orchid -> non-orchid addresses. Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash IDentifiers (RFC 4843, 2001:10::/28) are currenty not globally reachable. Without this check a host with an ORCHID address can end up preferring those over regular addresses when talking to other regular hosts in the 2001::/16 range thus breaking non-orchid connections. Signed-off-by: Juha-Matti Tapio <jmtapio@verkkotelakka.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/ipv6.h10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/ipv6.h b/include/net/ipv6.h
index c0c019f72ba..8b05c65415c 100644
--- a/include/net/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/net/ipv6.h
@@ -384,6 +384,16 @@ static inline int ipv6_addr_v4mapped(const struct in6_addr *a)
}
/*
+ * Check for a RFC 4843 ORCHID address
+ * (Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifiers)
+ */
+static inline int ipv6_addr_orchid(const struct in6_addr *a)
+{
+ return ((a->s6_addr32[0] & htonl(0xfffffff0))
+ == htonl(0x20010010));
+}
+
+/*
* find the first different bit between two addresses
* length of address must be a multiple of 32bits
*/