Disable router anycast address for /127 prefixes
authorBjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:04:13 +0000 (23:04 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 7 Jul 2011 11:15:10 +0000 (04:15 -0700)
RFC 6164 requires that routers MUST disable Subnet-Router anycast
for the prefix when /127 prefixes are used.

No need for matching code in addrconf_leave_anycast() as it
will silently ignore any attempt to leave an unknown anycast
address.

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c

index 05838c7..fc6d377 100644 (file)
@@ -1470,6 +1470,8 @@ void addrconf_leave_solict(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr)
 static void addrconf_join_anycast(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
 {
        struct in6_addr addr;
+       if (ifp->prefix_len == 127) /* RFC 6164 */
+               return;
        ipv6_addr_prefix(&addr, &ifp->addr, ifp->prefix_len);
        if (ipv6_addr_any(&addr))
                return;