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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2008-06-24 11:43:00 +0200
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2008-06-24 11:43:00 +0200
commit19fd426a18b48a0446ba4b54ac66264916dcb7f3 (patch)
treeb9e0f2bc35e746c14f5e5e5519ed79f1eb4b0f98 /net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
parente8183c2452041326c95258ecc7865b6fcd91c730 (diff)
parent62786b9e81a2dbe9c073a2ade52d33a2627d6d85 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for_mm
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ip6_input.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_input.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
index 4e5c8615832..17eb48b8e32 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ int ipv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt
if (hdr->version != 6)
goto err;
+ /*
+ * RFC4291 2.5.3
+ * A packet received on an interface with a destination address
+ * of loopback must be dropped.
+ */
+ if (!(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) &&
+ ipv6_addr_loopback(&hdr->daddr))
+ goto err;
+
skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + sizeof(*hdr);
IP6CB(skb)->nhoff = offsetof(struct ipv6hdr, nexthdr);